Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:22:14 +0200 From: Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari@supsi.ch> To: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: top: what processes use the CPU? Message-ID: <44DB08D6.5040505@supsi.ch> In-Reply-To: <8456CA11-8076-45EF-B5A8-E79319C22D4A@lassitu.de> References: <44DAD47B.3030600@supsi.ch> <ED756A9A-3591-4DD7-8DC7-65FFD6E7FD6B@lassitu.de> <44DAF7D7.6000608@supsi.ch> <8456CA11-8076-45EF-B5A8-E79319C22D4A@lassitu.de>
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Stefan Bethke wrote: > Am 10.08.2006 um 11:09 schrieb Roberto Nunnari: > >> Stefan Bethke wrote: >>> Am 10.08.2006 um 08:38 schrieb Roberto Nunnari: >>>> Hello everybody. >>>> >>>> Just a short question: Why top doesn't any more show what >>>> processes use the CPU? I mean.. 0.0% idle and the sum of the >>>> processes CPU doesn't reach 1.0%.. >>>> >>>> as an example, while make buildkernel top shows: >>> Because the cc processes are too short lived to consistently show up >>> when top is scanning the process table? >> >> Ok.. but as idle CPU shows 0.0%, there should be a way of getting >> the processes that finished already living but caused that 0.0% idle.. >> >> What if your users are running lot of short lived processes? >> How can you find them out? > > You can't with current FreeBSD tools. > > Efforts are underway to port DTrace from Solaris, which allows gathering > information like this, among many other interesting things. > > > Stefan > > --Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Fon +49 170 346 0140 > Ok. Thank you Stefan. Best regards. -- Robi
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