Phil Bullphilbull@gmail.com2011Michael Hillmdhillca@gmail.com2011, 2014Use Solaris mode to reflect the number of CPUs.What is Solaris mode?
Phil Bull
Very brief topic. Explain what "Solaris mode" in the preferences dialog
means. The current manual has some information.
In a system that has multiple CPUs or cores,
processes can use more than one at the same time. It is possible for the
% CPU column to display values that total greater than 100% (i.e.
400% in a 4-CPU system). Solaris mode divides the % CPU
for each process by the number of CPUs in the system so that the total will be
100%.
To display the % CPU in Solaris mode:
Click Preferences in the app menu.
Click the Processes tab.
Select Divide CPU Usage by CPU Count.
The term Solaris mode derives from Sun's UNIX, compared
to the Linux default of IRIX mode, named for SGI's UNIX.