From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 22 11:49:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC0116A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:49:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC89943D54 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:49:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely5.cicely.de (cicely5.cicely.de [10.1.1.7]) (authenticated bits=0)j0MBnlHo071125 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:49:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (cicely12.cicely.de [IPv6:3ffe:400:8d0:301::12]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0MBnNU3070993 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:49:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: from cicely12.cicely.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0MBnNLg025092; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:49:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely12.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely12.cicely.de (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j0MBnMWL025091; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:49:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:49:22 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Alexander Leidinger Message-ID: <20050122114921.GX8860@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20050122120810.05b8a0e3@Magellan.Leidinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050122120810.05b8a0e3@Magellan.Leidinger.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely12.cicely.de 5.2-CURRENT alpha User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Report: * -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on cicely12.cicely.de cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange behavior of "top" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ticso@cicely.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:49:53 -0000 On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:08:10PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Hi, > > since my CPU monitor displayed a unexpected CPU usage I wanted to hunt > down the problem. But top displays a strange output. It tells me that > 23% of CPU are used by userland processes. But I only see 1.5% used in > the process listing. The galeon-bin process shows alot of used CPU time > (for this small uptime), and I wouldn't be surprised if it is the galeon > process which is eating the majority of the CPU resources (I have ~85 > tabs open with content), but I object to the 0% CPU display then. > > The galeon process spends alot of time in the kserel state. > > This is -current as of yesterday. Any ideas? Don't know your case, but this usually happens for me if the processes taking the CPU time are already gone. e.g. during GNU configure where lots of short running process are used. You may keep an eye on last pid value. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de