On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 02:52:34AM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:54:34AM +0000, Dean Chester wrote: > > Hi > > I recently noticed that my CPU is at 100% when the temperature of my CPU is > > high. Taking a look at System Monitor i have also discovered that my swap > > space is being used while only 13% of the RAM is, why isn't is using the > > rest of the RAM. Has anyone got any ideas why? > > No. CPU utilization has nothing directly to do with swap usage. > > If a 100% CPU usage causes your computer to *over*heat (which is > something you did not write above) you'll have a problem elsewhere (e.g. > a dist-upgrade that includes tex-live :-) )
Or, is the board firmware slowing down the CPU to allow it to cool, which makes a basically idling debian system to use a higher percentage of available CPU (less idle time). Remember, its a percentage of CPU capacity. If the CPU slows down, the the available capacity decreases. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
