From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 18 19:51:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B159016A41F for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:51:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from w@expro.pl) Received: from mailin1.expro.pl (mailin1.expro.pl [193.25.166.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5435043D46 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:51:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from w@expro.pl) Received: from miranda-1.dmz.exprozone ([10.0.16.20] helo=miranda.expro.pl) (envelope-sender ) by mailin1.expro.pl with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EzJLJ-0001tv-5Q for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:51:41 +0100 Received: by miranda.expro.pl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 69E1D54929; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:51:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:51:41 +0100 From: Jan Srzednicki To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060118195141.GA38794@miranda.expro.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Subject: accounting - question on "core usage" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:51:43 -0000 Hello, In the sa(8) manpage, I can find that it prints out somewhat mysterious values: k CPU-time averaged core usage, in 1k units k*sec CPU storage integral, in 1k-core seconds How are these values calculated and what do they really tell me? I know they're somehow related to the memory usage. -- Jan Srzednicki w@expro.pl