From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 27 13:29:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470D137B718 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:29:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2RLTAG64370; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:29:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200103272004.f2RK40S16036@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:28:46 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: David Wolfskill Subject: Re: top output broked? Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Mar-01 David Wolfskill wrote: >>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:56:38 -0800 (PST) >>From: John Baldwin > >>> 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. -STABLE doesn't have idle processes. :) >>> 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.) Fair enough.. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message