Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:11:45 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deciphering top(1) output Message-ID: <8358B2AB-F262-4863-A5B0-FF1A08EA5BBE@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20110212010816.GA1450@freebsd.org> References: <20110212002129.GA95360@freebsd.org> <2F104DA0-9420-4E7A-9023-A7C6AC5EC173@mac.com> <20110212004100.GA98882@freebsd.org> <2325F972-050A-4CA2-9900-27000776E52A@mac.com> <20110212010816.GA1450@freebsd.org>
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On Feb 11, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > also i noticed that when a processes CPU activity goes up to let's say 10% and > then down again to 0% this doesn't mean that the idle process will jump to 200% > instantly, but it takes ~ 10 seconds for it to reclaim the CPU activity that > was used by the other process beforehand. WCPU stands for "weighted CPU", and is an average over time. Use -C flag if you want "raw" CPU instead.... Regards, -- -Chuck
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