Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 15:44:51 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: ben@rosengart.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: top doesn't know a process's time? Message-ID: <19980607154451.A10961@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980607160152.19688A-100000@echonyc.com>; from "Snob Art Genre" on Sun Jun 7 16:02:55 GMT 1998 References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980607160152.19688A-100000@echonyc.com>
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In the last episode (Jun 07), Snob Art Genre said: > I've never seen this before -- under the "TIME" header, top just has > three question marks for this process. Could it have something to do > with the process being multithreaded? I doubt it. How long has the process been running? > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 287 ben 105 19 840K 608K RUN ??? 85.18% 85.18% rc5des PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 2248 dan 105 19 836K 332K RUN 122.3H 96.09% 96.09% rc5desbsd I could imagine it having a problem when the field hits "9999.9". In fact, in /usr/src/contrib/top/utils.c, line ~375 seems to check against seconds > (99999*360), which is close enough. How long HAS that process been running??? To trigger the "???" code, it would have to be running for over a year? -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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