IDLE state:High CPU utilization

[Chris Tyler]

On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 18:47 +0530, magina antimage wrote:
> Hi,
>     I have ported fedora  for my target board,
>    i am getting high CPU utilisation(30-35%) even when my system is
> idle (no gnome / X session).
> i used top command to see which process is consuming CPU,but couldn't
> find any.
> any help.

Hi Magina,

You're on the right track. Three questions:

(1) How do you know you have 30-35% CPU utilization when idle? I.e.,
which tool is reporting this?

(2) What does top show? Can you paste the first 10 lines of top output?

(3) Is your system multi-core?

-Chris