From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 04:42:43 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA28507 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 04:42:43 -0800 Received: from ee.ubc.ca (fs1.ee.ubc.ca [137.82.52.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA28501 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 04:42:41 -0800 Received: from muck.ee.ubc.ca by ee.ubc.ca (0/0 = undefined, so there) id EAA18706; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 04:40:56 -0800 From: davidk@ee.ubc.ca (david kwan) Received: by muck.ee.ubc.ca (5.61/SMI-4.0) id AA15897; Wed, 15 Mar 95 04:41:39 -0800 Message-Id: <9503151241.AA15897@muck.ee.ubc.ca> Subject: Strange "ps" results To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 04:41:36 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 933 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have just loaded FreeBSD 950210-SNAP onto my home computer (486DX2-80) to do some coding simulations. Everything works great! However, whenenver I use "ps -ux" to check the status of a simulation running in the background it returns some erroneous results: >USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND >davidk 192 124.6 3.3 224 472 p1 R 4:23AM 0:13.10 sim1_2 >davidk 190 0.0 3.1 552 436 p1 S 4:23AM 0:00.37 -u (tcsh) why is it that % cpu utilization for process 192 is > 100%. Is this some "feature" that I am not aware of? If it is a bug, what part of the source should I modify to fix it? (I am not an experienced UNIX system program. I just write coding simulations.) -- David Kwan Email: davidk@ee.ubc.ca Graduate Studies (M.A.Sc Program) Electrical Engineering The University of British Columbia Vancouver B.C. Canada