Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 13:16:25 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Doug White' <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: 'top' not showing correct output Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB44011058CE@site2s1>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Doug White [SMTP:dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu] > Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 4:58 PM > To: Wayne Cuddy > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: 'top' not showing correct output > > On Sat, 15 May 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > > > When I run the 'top' command on FBSD 3.1R the "CPU states" line and the > > WCPU/CPU percentages are incorrect. For some reason they show 0.0% when > I > > know this simply is not true. I even tested this with a program that > looped > > using up lots of CPU. This doesn't happen on all of my systems, it only > > happens on a Dell Latitude M233ST. Has anyone else seen this before? > > your 'looping' program is not on the list. Perhaps your program optimized > out the loop? > > > last pid: 295; load averages: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 up 0+00:11:43 > 23:05:29 > > 30 processes: 1 running, 29 sleeping > > CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% > idle > I'm just curious at this point, but isn't the above line supposed to be equal to ~100% not 0.0%. According to that top output there is no cpu at all, shouldn't idle be something like 99% if it's really not doing anything? > > Mem: 3740K Active, 7516K Inact, 6348K Wired, 3466K Buf, 12M Free > > Swap: 98M Total, 98M Free > > > > > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > > 229 root 2 0 1028K 760K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sshd1 > > All quiet on the CPU front... > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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