Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:50:52 +0100 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, KES <kes-kes@yandex.ru>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ambigious 'top' results Message-ID: <200812170850.53035.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <20081216162939.L61714@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <1124988593.20081216172545@yandex.ru> <20081216162939.L61714@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Tuesday 16 December 2008 16:31:35 Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> are you using 7-branch?
>
> in my 7.1 system there is same problem. top shows often nonsense in CPU
> usage of a process, but totals are OK.
there's 4.3% system, so use top -S to show system processes.
> you even gave an example - bzip2 can't use 0% CPU running - more close to
> 100% :)
If bzip2 is blocked, it'll be running at 0%. Example:
bzip2 -cf - /path/to/large/file | (sleep 900; cat - > /dev/null)
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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