From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 13:24:40 2003 Return-Path: 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 9646837B401 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 13:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6FC43FA3 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 13:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h48KOdsh041397; Thu, 8 May 2003 15:24:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 15:24:39 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Josh Brooks Message-ID: <20030508202439.GU31032@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030508125757.D5537-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030508125757.D5537-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interpreting `top` output ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 20:24:40 -0000 In the last episode (May 08), Josh Brooks said: > I have a few questions about the output of `top`. First off, the > TIME column...does that represent the amount of real world time that > the application has been running for ? > > I am guessing it does not, because sometimes I watch `top` and it > does not increment second by second..so if it does not, what does it > stand for ? TIME is in CPU-seconds, so a process using 50% CPU will increment TIME at about 1/2 wall-clock time. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com