From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 18:45:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AABB4106566B for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:45:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com [66.147.249.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 723698FC17 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:45:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 15083 invoked by uid 0); 25 Jan 2011 18:45:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy1.bluehost.com.bluehost.com with SMTP; 25 Jan 2011 18:45:46 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=hJICSWHBJEJfuLc0e/0yiqUa1OET07cpX2XYRTN3XF3X1Ia9r5+l2YDNZ6CIvupQd7vKiJ1zVWbcVkBchjH51o+8AxlnG7lp23Z+CBZYlqjbw296gYlKjA1LnFyon55V; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Phnth-0002Gy-LM for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:45:46 -0700 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:36:19 -0700 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:36:19 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20110125183619.GA65845@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions References: <20110124235740.GA62134@guilt.hydra> <1295917366.59721.2.camel@main> <20110125030725.GA62670@guilt.hydra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: more CPU being used than I have (?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:45:47 -0000 --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 06:20:02AM -0700, Dmitri Brengauz wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > Do you have a reference to a relatively simple explanation of how that > > weighting works (and why)? >=20 > man 1 ps: >=20 > %cpu The CPU utilization of the process; this is a decaying average > over up to a minute of previous (real) time. Since the time > base over which this is computed varies (since processes may be > very young) it is possible for the sum of all %cpu fields to > exceed 100%. Unfortunately, that doesn't explain why. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk0/GCMACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVrXQCghfLZNdXR8GAqgeNLfFEVQ1Yo DUEAn1iTACPP4nze3PLEGBQ6+fQZytc0 =T7Ih -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx--