Quote Originally Posted by PoppaGeek View Post
You have 8 WUs running. 4 @ 100%. If you take the % for Xorg and BoincManager and add those numbers to the remaining 4 you are 99-100% on the other 4.
Ya know, I plain forgot to check that. Out of a possible 800% (8 cores at 100%) top is showing a sum total of 797%, breaking that down that means the machine is at 99.6% total CPU utilisation. That's actually pretty good! All the tweaks in the world will not gain you any more than that last 0.4%, though ditching X and boincmgr will gain you the equivalent of 20% of one CPU (roughly) by removing competing processes.