Linux top greater than 100 percent - CPU

Question: I was using the Linux top command to monitor the CPU activity on a Linux server hosting. To my surprise , I saw the CPU at 202% - what?! How can this be? top - 16:45:37 up 127 days, 7:27, 1 user, load average: 2.21, 2.23, 2.23 Tasks: 153 total, 1 running, 152 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 24.6% us, 1.1% sy, 0.0% ni, 73.4% id, 1.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 24684584k total, 16883612k used, 7800972k free, 608548k buffers Swap: 12586936k total, 78384k used, 12508552k free, 14552460k cached PID USER PR NI %CPU TIME+ %MEM VIRT... Read more →