From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 24 2:42:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from everest.wananchi.com (everest.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35CC37B422 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 02:42:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by everest.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.22 #2) id 152rcT-0005jA-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 May 2001 12:41:25 +0300 Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 12:41:25 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FBSD-Q Subject: Top status from an SMP box Message-ID: <20010524124125.A20301@everest.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , FBSD-Q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 12:30PM up 1 day, 1:35, 2 users, load averages: 0.23, 0.18, 0.26 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello gurus, I am running an SMP box but the output of 'top' seems to confuse me. =46rom the output below, is my processor any idle, and if so, what is the %age?? ## 81 process202921 running, 78 slee 0.06, 0.15, 0.25 up 1+01:34:2412:29:26 78U states: 1% user, 5% nice, 2% system, % interrupt, %idle Mem: 85M Act 1.1 9728K I 0.0, 22M Wi 3.7 5664K Cac 0.922M Buf, 488K F94.3e Swap: 350M Total,7996K Inact, 22M Wired, 8296K Cache, 22M Buf, 544K Free At no point have I seen any numeral near the %idle, while I believe it should be over 80% [snip] 1 , 88K In PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 469 squid 2 0 90904K 75420K poll 1 55:49 4.69% 4.69% squid 20985 wash 30 0 2036K 1156K CPU0 1 0:00 4.46% 1.32% top 21016 dre 2 0 1052K 636K sbwait 0 0:00 3.00% 0.15% popa3 213 root 2 0 5404K 3380K select 1 2:35 0.00% 0.00% named 501 squid -6 0 848K 232K piperd 0 1:15 0.00% 0.00% unlinkd 373 root 2 0 2256K 428K select 1 0:26 0.00% 0.00% exim 209 root 2 0 924K 320K select 1 0:26 0.00% 0.00% syslo 232 root 2 0 1052K 176K select 1 0:21 0.00% 0.00% inetd 242 root 2 0 2148K 224K select 1 0:05 0.00% 0.00% sshd 367 root 2 0 2024K 288K select 0 0:04 0.00% 0.00% httpd 453 root 2 0 1936K 440K select 0 0:04 0.00% 0.00% nmbd [/snip] MTIA -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286, 00100-NAIROBI,KE. Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. -- Ed Howe --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7DNdFn7LIsuxjem8RAsr/AKC1WW0WZP3D+hDAzmAvJoW3j7FEkgCePjKf xb+DieuinOQ/p7nJzzdtdcE= =FR+C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message