On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 18:56 +0100, Tamas Rudnai wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Herbert Graf <hkgraf@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > FWIW under Linux CPU usage is based on total usage/power of single CPU,
> > so in multicore/multicpu systems it's quite "normal" to see CPU use go
> > beyond 100%. For example, when I use mencoder set for multicore on my
> > quad I regularly see >%200 "usage" for the mencoder process.
> >
> 
> Just wondering if you had the new Intel Core i7, which has quad core plus
> hyper threading, so that's 8 virtual CPU giving you 800% load in total? :-)
> Plus it has this Turbo Boost technology whatever it means, but they said it
> boosts the core frequency dynamically, so maybe you can make 1000% load
> even? :-)

FWIW it's an AMD Phenom 8500, was lying around in the lab so I got
permission to grab it for my desktop system. Linux loves more cores, and
the 4GB RAM... :)

TTYL

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