From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 25 10:43:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.mind.net (morpheus.mind.net [206.101.72.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A878537B41E for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jfox@localhost) by morpheus.mind.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3PHhOj75270 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:43:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfox) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 10:43:24 -0700 From: John Fox To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: top's 'WCPU' category Message-ID: <20020425104323.E72202@mind.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i X-Mailer-Monkey: GonGon 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 I've been poking around with 'top' and have gotten curious about 'WCPU' versus 'CPU'. Specifically, I am curious about the difference between them. I read the manpage and saw the 'WCPU' is derived the same way ps derives 'CPU' stat. I then looked up the CPU stat in ps' manpage and didn't understand any of it! Would someone capable be willing to give a lay-person's explanation of these two different stats? It would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, John -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | John Fox | System Administrator | Internet Ventures Oregon | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "The people and friends that we have lost, the dreams that have faded... | | never forget them." -- Yuna, Final Fantasy X | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message