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Date:      Fri, 25 May 2001 10:02:22 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>
Cc:        FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Top status from an SMP box
Message-ID:  <20010525100222.D26315@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010524124125.A20301@everest.wananchi.com>; from wash@wananchi.com on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:41:25PM %2B0300
References:  <20010524124125.A20301@everest.wananchi.com>

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On Thursday, 24 May 2001 at 12:41:25 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Hello gurus,
> I am running an SMP box but the output of 'top' seems to confuse me.
>
> From the output below, is my processor any idle, and if so, what is the
>> age??
> ##
>
> 81 process202921 running, 78 slee 0.06,  0.15,  0.25  up 1+01:34:2412:29:26
> 78U states:    1% user,  5% nice,  2% system,   % interrupt,     %idle
> Mem: 85M Act 1.1 9728K I 0.0, 22M Wi 3.7 5664K Cac 0.922M Buf, 488K F94.3e
> Swap: 350M Total,7996K Inact, 22M Wired, 8296K Cache, 22M Buf, 544K Free
>
> At no point have I seen any numeral near the %idle, while I believe it
> should be over 80%

You don't say:

1.  What version of FreeBSD you're running.
2.  How you invoke top.
3.  Why you think the load should be round 80%.  There's nothing to
    suggest that in the output you show.

I suspect that you might have a problem with a version mismatch.  The
entire output above looks somewhat strange.  I'm sure you don't really
have 202921 processes running, for example, and there's obvious
mutilation in the text.

Greg
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