[Hampshire] Weird output from 'top'

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Author: Chris. Aubrey-Smith
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To: Hampshire
Subject: [Hampshire] Weird output from 'top'
Hi, all!

While running Iceweasel, my machine (3.00Ghz, 1.0 Mb IBM S50, Debian Lenny)
suddenly became very sluggish. I ran top and found that firefox.bin was
reported as consuming 135% of processor capacity! I killed the process and
everything returned to normal.

Now, I'm used to certain public figures claiming to be '110% certain' about
various things, but 135% CPU? Can anyone explain?

Chris.