[Asterisk-Users] Top and asterisk performance

[Julian Lyndon-Smith]

We had to move from a old * server to a new one in a hurry (hardware 
failure). The old server was a dual pentium 700 with 512MB ram running 
fedora core 2, the new one is a single 3GHz Pentium with 1gb ram.

The same number of people are connected to the new server as the old, 
the same number of inbound calls to the isdn30 etc (on average 20 calls 
active at any time (SIP and ZAP)). Basically, just a server swapout.

I must be reading top wrong, because the old server had a idle of approx 
30%, whereas the new server is

top - 13:35:21 up 12 days, 23:57,  1 user,  load average: 7.11, 7.20, 7.21
Tasks:  98 total,   9 running,  89 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 99.0% us,  1.0% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   1034640k total,   144792k used,   889848k free,    21952k buffers
Swap:  2031608k total,        0k used,  2031608k free,    61248k cached

Notice the 99.0% us. This fluctuates between 80 and 99%.

The other difference is that the new server is on cvs-head as of today - 
I did say that it was an emergency :) whereas the old server was 
cvs-head from june sometime.

Is it just me, or is there a problem ?

Julian.