Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:04:50 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange behavior of "top" Message-ID: <20050122130450.48f3c9c3@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20050122114921.GX8860@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20050122120810.05b8a0e3@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050122114921.GX8860@cicely12.cicely.de>
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:49:22 +0100 Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:08:10PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > since my CPU monitor displayed a unexpected CPU usage I wanted to hunt > > down the problem. But top displays a strange output. It tells me that > > 23% of CPU are used by userland processes. But I only see 1.5% used in > > the process listing. The galeon-bin process shows alot of used CPU time > > (for this small uptime), and I wouldn't be surprised if it is the galeon > > process which is eating the majority of the CPU resources (I have ~85 > > tabs open with content), but I object to the 0% CPU display then. > > > > The galeon process spends alot of time in the kserel state. > > > > This is -current as of yesterday. Any ideas? > > Don't know your case, but this usually happens for me if the processes > taking the CPU time are already gone. > e.g. during GNU configure where lots of short running process are used. > You may keep an eye on last pid value. Ah, yes, I know about this too (and you may be able to catch the cause of the load in this case by repeatedly hitting the space key very fast). Sorry, I forgot to tell that no such action was running in the background. Bye, Alexander. -- The computer revolution is over. The computers won. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7
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