> Is there something generally wrong with how linux determines total cpu
> usage (via procmeter3 and top) when dealing with applications that are
> threaded? I routinely get 0% cpu usage when playing mpegs and mp3s and
> some avi's even (Divx when using no software enhancement) ... Somehow i
> doubt that the decoders are so streamlined that they produce <1% cpu
> usage on the computer. Does anyone know what's going on with this?
> ps shows nearly 0% cpu usage in the threads as well.
CPU usage of programs that sleep after short computation is incorrectly computed
See badboy examples for code that gets 70% of cpu and is reported as getting
0%.
> i've seen it in these programs
> freeamp
> mplayer
>
> I've seen it in earlier 2.2.19 kernels but i'm using pre14 right now.
>
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