Thanks to all who replied. It seemd obvious enough for most people who replied: the box had 2 CPUs and the user's code was single-threaded so that's why I only saw close to 50% CPU utilization. Thanks a lot! Michele On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Michele Perucic wrote: > > Hi, > > One of my users is having problems with a machine ( uname -a => > SunOS xxxx 5.8 Generic_117350-33 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60). > He is running some simulations that are taking a very long time; the CPU is > constantly used at _less_ than 50% and he's the only user logged in... > I ran top and I don't see anything else running (i.e. using significant CPU > cycles). > On another similar machine, the user is able to use close to 100% of the CPU. > > Does anybody have an idea about what's going on and what to do? > > Thanks a lot! > Michele _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Nov 6 14:28:12 2006
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