Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 17:40:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/37702: /usr/bin/top uses 100% cpu in 'system' Message-ID: <200205050040.g450e4C23386@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/37702; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>,
<freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: bin/37702: /usr/bin/top uses 100% cpu in 'system'
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 10:39:24 +1000 (EST)
On Sat, 4 May 2002, David Malone wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 05:50:07AM -0700, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > case 's':
> > - if ((delay = atoi(optarg)) < 0)
> > + if ((delay = atoi(optarg)) <= 0)
> > {
>
> I think this has been fixed in -current in another way:
>
> if ((delay = atoi(optarg)) < 0 || (delay == 0 && getuid() != 0))
>
> this means you're only alowd to get continious updates if you're
> root. (This change came from the last beta version of top which
> was released by the original authors.)
-current still has the bad options parsing, and a delay of 0 causes
strange synchronization at least on syscons consoles: the
user/nice/system/interrupt/idle percentages are usually all displayed
as "0.0".
Bruce
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