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High system CPU% in dual CPU System

DISCUSSION Ingo Ciechowski 1 participant 1 message Jun 23, 2001 1 message not in the archive

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CPU0 states: 19.2% user, 32.0% system, 0.0% nice, 48.2% idle
CPU1 states: 20.4% user, 40.1% system, 0.0% nice, 38.3% idle

What can I do to find out what the CPUs are doing during "system" time?

Try 'ps -ax' and see if any process has a large TIME (cumulative CPU time). I suspect you may just be seeing a kernel idle process (e.g. kapm-idled), which is nothing to worry about.

Hi Dan,

thanx for the hint. I could identify one of my scripts as cause of the problem and will now have a closer look at its periodic activity..

Ingo