From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 8 0:51:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hun.org (hun.org [216.190.28.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC1137B66C for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 00:51:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by hun.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 693D71C2AB; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 07:51:20 +0000 (GMT) From: attila! Organization: hun.org, over 40 years beyond the fringe home for unpenitent hackers and anarcho-cryptophreaks Die-Spammers: Spammers cheerfully broiled and served with Stubbs's "Inferno" Wicked Chicken Wing Sauce Mailer: FreeBSD 5.0-20000925 with XEmacs V21.1.10 (see alt.religion.emacs) Ballistic: N 37.218497 W 113.614979 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: very high CPU time demand from process #10 ('idle') Message-Id: <20001008075120.693D71C2AB@hun.org> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 07:51:20 +0000 (GMT) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message