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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Chicago
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I was playing Starcraft today on my 12" PB, 1.33ghz G4, OS X.3.4, 786MB RAM, and I got an IM, so I took Starcraft out of full screen mode to check who it was. While I was out in finder-land I decided to check the CPU usage and other stuff using the "top" command in Terminal. I was shocked when I saw what it was reporting:
Edit: There is an image here, if it doesn't load just wait a sec cause it's on a slow server If it doesn't load at all, "top" is reporting that Starcraft's CPU usage is at 107.9% Edit #2: Fixed image. Thanks for hosting it ThunderPoit Can someone explain how an app was using over 100% of my processor? Keeping in mind that this is a PowerBook, so it's a single CPU. It's not really all that important, but I found it interesting. Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this for me. And one more question, is there a command similar to "top" but for the GPU? Come waste your time with me Last edited by DMBand0026 : 2004-08-05 at 20:32. Reason: Added something and fixed image |
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Yarp
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Road Warrior
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Must have been a really good game of SC
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Chicago
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Oh yeah, I'm wicked good I did the same thing again last night and saw the CPU usage jump to 171% for about 10 seconds before dropping back into the 80s. Anyone have any idea how that can happen? I'm really lost. Come waste your time with me |
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Ninja Editor
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Bay Area, CA
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There could be a bug that adds 100% to the processor usage.
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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I've seen this reported just once before by a single-CPU user. I think someone attributed it to a timing error in the top command; it was under such a heavy load it just totally miscalculated all the values.
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I shot the sherrif.
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yeah, top isn't exact, so you can see that on occasion. although that's pretty far over.
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