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Date:      Sun,  8 Oct 2000 07:51:20 +0000 (GMT)
From:      attila! <attila@hun.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   very high CPU time demand from process #10 ('idle')
Message-ID:  <20001008075120.693D71C2AB@hun.org>

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  -- ps -ax --

    0  ??  DLs    0:00.40  (swapper)
    1  ??  ILs    0:00.07  /sbin/init --
    2  ??  DL     0:04.23  (pagedaemon)
    3  ??  DL     0:00.65  (vmdaemon)
    4  ??  DL     0:00.70  (bufdaemon)
    5  ??  DL     0:44.85  (syncer)
   10  ??  RL  4986:29.70  (idle)
   11  ??  WL     5:43.86  (softinterrupt)
   12  ??  DL    24:58.44  (random)
   13  ??  WL     0:05.88  (irq10: ahc0)
   14  ??  WL     0:00.00  (irq11: dc0)
   15  ??  WL     0:14.91  (irq1: atkbd0)
   16  ??  WL     0:46.60  (irq12: psm0)
   17  ??  WL     0:00.00  (irq6: fdc0)
   18  ??  WL     0:00.08  (irq7: ppc0)
   19  ??  WL     3:19.82  (irq0: clk)
   20  ??  RL     5:43.47  (irq8: rtc)

  What is process 10? Is this literally a representation of
  the CPU idle time accumulation for the 85 hours since
  boot?

  Despite the enormous time burn on 'idle' it does not show
  on 'top'.

  -- top --

  last pid: 20622;  load averages:  0.08,  0.06,  0.02 up 3+13:52:34  07:14:04
  69 processes:  1 running, 67 sleeping, 1 zombie
  CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  1.2% system,  0.0% interrupt, 98.8% idle
  Mem: 81M Active, 18M Inact, 18M Wired, 4852K Cache, 22M Buf, 1764K Free
  Swap: 512M Total, 33M Used, 479M Free, 6% Inuse



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