Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:04:00 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: jhb@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: top output broked? Message-ID: <200103272004.f2RK40S16036@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010327115638.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:56:38 -0800 (PST) >From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> >> OK; that's a good & useful thing to keep in mind. And I did see some >> IRQ-related entries in top's output. >Are they getting %CPU though. When running top -S, the CPU %'s should always >add up to about 100 (with fudges for rounding errors). Well, as noted in another note a little prior to this one, the -CURRENT behavior I'm seeing isn't all *that* different from the -STABLE behavior -- in each case, the sum of what "top" reports for CPU % is normally small. >> Eh... the "enlightenment" line may provide a clue there. I use tvtwm as >> a window manager. :-} (I figure anything that could be marginally >> acceptable on a (maxed out) 24 MB Sun 3/60 ought to be adequate for this >> 750 MHz/256 MB laptop....) >Heh, but I figured Alfred was in X when he was running top, so X must've been >doing _some_ screen updates, and not just have 0.00% CPU time. :-P Well, that gets into a matter of perspective, since the amount of CPU resource required to do the screen updates (vs. what is available) could well be 0.00 (to 2 decimals).... :-) (Kinda like the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is "3" to a single significant figure.) (I was in X at the time, too.) Cheers, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me to advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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