interpreting dumpsys cpuinfo

Question

Im looking for an explanation of result of command \"dumpsys cpuinfo\" in android shell.

:# dumpsys cpuinfo
Load: 17.78 / 16.97 / 16.29
CPU usage from 35983m         


        

Answer 1

The information in dumpsys cpuinfo here is just a variation of the unix top command.

1) The load information is described here:

http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2009/07/31/understanding-load-averages

2) If you have more than one core (which I expect that you do), it will be more than 100%, so it is an average across all of the CPUs.

https://superuser.com/questions/575202/understanding-top-command-in-unix

3) Of the 97% of CPU, the process is spending 78% time in user space, and 19% in Kernel space.