Very high nice percentage on monitor

From: Brewer, Edward (BREWERE@OD.NIH.GOV)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 10:13:03 EDT


Admins,

        Examing my ES40 today I noticed while using top that there were two
gzip processes that were constantly near 100 % . I know why they are
running and decided to check how they where effecting the system using
monitor. I noticed that the CPU percentages had very high nice vaules, 2
near 100 % the others 100- <user percentage>. Leaving the system with low
idle. Is the system working too hard moving around the priorites of the
processes?

The system is an ES40 (4 CPU, 8 GB ram machine) Trucluster 5.1 patch kit
5...

Lee Brewer



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