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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Tshark shows packet loss while tcpdump doesn't! - Why?

From: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 22:32:25 +0200
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:02:00PM +0200, H Aslam wrote:
> While running "top" on the linux machine 50% of the processor is occupied.
> So the processor doesn't seem to get overloaded.

If you have 2 CPU (or cores) it might mean that 1 CPU has 100% usage.

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