From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 15:44:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C9F137B40D for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:44:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@babbleon.org) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.26.62.201]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 15 Aug 2001 18:42:37 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Rick Hamell , Charlie & Subject: Re: CPU Usage Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 18:42:37 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01081518423700.00701@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Wednesday 15 August 2001 12:59, Rick Hamell wrote: > > On top, it displays every processes cpu usage as 0% It also does this on > > ps -L. > > Does anybody know how this problem could be fixed? > > I have a amd duron 800mhz with asus a7v-e mainboard. > > 1st off... don't send email from root.. it's bad practise...:) In > fact only log in as root when you need too. > 2ndly... FreeBSD is not like Windows. Just because your CPU usage > is 0%, is not a bad thing... Maybe it's not bad, but it *is* implausible. In fact, I have to believe that if *all* process show as 0.00%, then something's not right. In my experience, whenever I run top, there's at least process (namely, "top") that shows non-zero CPU, although just now, for example, top was 0.15% when it first started up. After that, it dropped to zero. xosview shows up always as about 5%. You can run that to see whether top is getting bad numbers or you just aren't keeping your CPU very busy with user processes. Doing something like ls -R / should cause some non-zero number to show up for ls after a while. But low numbers are normal; system time won't show up in top, and FreeBSD is efficient enough that if you aren't doing much then the CPU isn't doing much, either. > 3rdly, send me the processor, ram, and motherboard. I'll replace > it for you free of charge with a P75, ram and > motherboard... :) Heck.. I'll even be a nice guy and throw in a fully > configured box with 4.3 on it... :) > > Rick > > ******************************************************************* > Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd > Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://hw.shatteredcrystal.com > ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) --------------------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! <------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message