"ps aux" command - performance poblems

[bobflorida]

does anyone know why the "ps aux" shows the swapper process
running at over 200%
[/home/uwmrne] ps aux | more
USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TTY STAT STIME TIME COMMAND
root 0 204.6 0.0 52 52 - A Sep 10 786909:39 swapper

I don't recall ever seeing it show up before, all of a sudden there it is?

Thanks

 

[mrn]

You've got more than 1 CPU

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

 

[bobflorida]

I though the swapper process "swapped" memory back and forth from the disk cache? this box has always run with multiple cpu's, it seems odd that it just stared when I run the ps aux command, I just want to be sure its ok that its there....thanks for responding....