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Date:      Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:09:43 +0200
From:      Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch>
To:        Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: top: what processes use the CPU?
Message-ID:  <44DAF7D7.6000608@supsi.ch>
In-Reply-To: <ED756A9A-3591-4DD7-8DC7-65FFD6E7FD6B@lassitu.de>
References:  <44DAD47B.3030600@supsi.ch> <ED756A9A-3591-4DD7-8DC7-65FFD6E7FD6B@lassitu.de>

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Stefan Bethke wrote:
> 
> Am 10.08.2006 um 08:38 schrieb Roberto Nunnari:
> 
>> Hello everybody.
>>
>> Just a short question: Why top doesn't any more show what
>> processes use the CPU? I mean.. 0.0% idle and the sum of the
>> processes CPU doesn't reach 1.0%..
>>
>> as an example, while make buildkernel top shows:
> 
> Because the cc processes are too short lived to consistently show up 
> when top is scanning the process table?

Ok.. but as idle CPU shows 0.0%, there should be a way of getting
the processes that finished already living but caused that 0.0% idle..

What if your users are running lot of short lived processes?
How can you find them out?

Thank you.
-- 
Robi




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