From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 24 03:28:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F951065673 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 03:28:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell.rawbw.com (shell.rawbw.com [198.144.192.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50EBA8FC0A for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 03:28:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from eagle.syrec.org (ppp-71-139-35-171.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [71.139.35.171]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell.rawbw.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n4O3SBuB052861 for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 20:28:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A18BEC8.5060506@rawbw.com> Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 20:28:08 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5% X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yuri@rawbw.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 03:28:13 -0000 Look below: load over 7 and no processes take much CPU. Yuri 7.2-PRERELEASE, 32-bit on i7-920. ------------------------------------------------------------ last pid: 93192; load averages: 7.68, 6.27, 4.61 up 2+03:11:29 20:25:24 204 processes: 9 running, 193 sleeping, 1 stopped, 1 zombie CPU: 5.3% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 94.7% idle Mem: 867M Active, 1684M Inact, 279M Wired, 65M Cache, 112M Buf, 92M Free Swap: 16G Total, 142M Used, 16G Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 60032 yuri 1 46 0 285M 183M select 0 41:15 0.59% Xorg 60400 yuri 1 4 0 12576K 9144K kqread 4 29:44 0.00% wineserver 92982 yuri 1 44 0 53012K 16800K CPU3 3 18:50 0.00% kdeinit4 92986 yuri 1 44 0 53012K 16800K CPU7 7 18:48 0.00% kdeinit4 92988 yuri 1 107 0 53012K 16840K CPU6 6 17:22 0.00% kdeinit4 60104 yuri 1 44 0 132M 45860K select 0 16:58 0.00% kwin 92984 yuri 1 117 0 53012K 16800K RUN 5 14:56 0.00% kdeinit4 60096 yuri 1 44 0 89732K 30040K select 4 10:10 0.00% kded4 93141 yuri 1 53 0 53012K 16800K CPU5 5 3:52 0.00% kdeinit4 93139 yuri 1 44 0 53012K 16800K CPU1 1 3:30 0.00% kdeinit4 60174 yuri 1 44 0 3168K 1400K select 0 1:28 0.00% ksysguardd 450 root 1 4 0 3128K 800K select 4 0:44 0.00% dhclient 1131 messagebus 1 4 0 3344K 1384K select 4 0:40 0.00% dbus-daemon