From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 22 12:04:10 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6B3616A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:04:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BFC843D1D for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:04:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd06.aul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1CsJzt-0001lv-00; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:04:09 +0100 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (V+h68eZToe0GP-HLsIFD5cQiA+j7IOxnuq7HqnyZnPjPP185gE6tYp@[217.83.21.140]) by fmrl06.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 1CsJzj-0hNsPY0; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:03:59 +0100 Received: from Magellan.Leidinger.net (Magellan.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.1]) j0MC2w91097513; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:02:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:04:50 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: ticso@cicely.de 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: V+h68eZToe0GP-HLsIFD5cQiA+j7IOxnuq7HqnyZnPjPP185gE6tYp@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: f1d404a4-97f8-4ce6-8b92-dbfbe46ef0a8 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange behavior of "top" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:04:11 -0000 On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:49:22 +0100 Bernd Walter 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