Multi-threaded Maxima



Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

   Yeah, max, not sum would be right.?? But here's a question. Why, if
   we are running on a single processor, is it only 50% busy??? Is it??
   50% = 100% X (1/2) ?? because it is?? one processor out of two??? Or
   is it 50% of one processor and 0% on the other processor?
   
That is how I interpreted Hennesey's original comment.  His 13% was
suspiciously close to 1/7, i.e. one out of seven processors working.
But both kinds of metering are used by various metering tools.