On 1/27/03 7:56 AM, "Hector Luna" <polonius19 at cox.net> wrote: > on 1/27/03 6:31 AM, Loren Schooley at loren at flash.net wrote: > >> On 1/27/03 7:22 AM, "Hector Luna" <polonius19 at cox.net> wrote: >> >>> on 1/27/03 6:09 AM, Loren Schooley at loren at flash.net wrote: >>> >>>> On 1/27/03 6:47 AM, "Hector Luna" <polonius19 at cox.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> cpu remains pegged at 100%. >>>> >>>> Why don't you look at top? >>>> >>> I do. Top identifies User usage and System usage. The percentages in Top add >>> up to what I see as User usage, usually 20 - 30%, the rest is used up by the >>> System, but I don't know how to find out what background processes are >>> running. I've even used the process monitor, but that didn't give me more >>> info than top. >> >> If your cpu is showing 100% for some reason, top or PM will identify the >> cause of it. >> > > I don't know how else to state this. The percentages in Top, for the > processes listed, do not add up to 100%. Neither do those in process > manager. > > I've been using the built-in cpu monitor and iPulse to monitor CPU usage, it > is always at 100%. Send a top -u to us, while iPulse is at 100%.