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Date:      Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:55:05 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: top: what processes use the CPU?
Message-ID:  <44DB1089.3080307@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <44DAF7D7.6000608@supsi.ch>
References:  <44DAD47B.3030600@supsi.ch> <ED756A9A-3591-4DD7-8DC7-65FFD6E7FD6B@lassitu.de> <44DAF7D7.6000608@supsi.ch>

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Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> Stefan Bethke wrote:
[ ... ]
>> 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?

You could set up process accounting as documented here:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security-accounting.html

-- 
-Chuck



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