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Maybe my eyes are deceiving me... where does it say it is idle?<br />
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The r under the S column suggests that it is running.
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Maybe my eyes are deceiving me... where does it say it is idle?

The r under the S column suggests that it is running.

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In the screen shot below, why is kacpi_notify[ at 100 percent, but idle is at 93, isn't that a contradiction ?<br />
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<pre><code id="code-10-27648735-1">top - 06:36:48 up 13:43,  4 users,  load average: 1.89, 1.69, 1.72
Tasks: 433 total,   4 running, 421 sleeping,   0 stopped,   8 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  6.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 93.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:  99044308k total,  9209052k used, 89835256k free,    94476k buffers
Swap: 68005880k total,        0k used, 68005880k free,  7727056k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  123 root      20   0     0    0    0 R 100.0  0.0 473:46.80 kacpi_notify</code></pre>
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In the screen shot below, why is kacpi_notify[ at 100 percent, but idle is at 93, isn't that a contradiction ?

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