Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:37:05 -0600 From: Sean Welch <Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: top under 5.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <20041128233704.GB62951@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net>
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I realize this is not strictly pertaining to -CURRENT (though I suspect it may pertain), but I've noticed a change in the output of top that I don't really understand. Through 5.2.1-RELEASE I've been accustomed to seeing the top few processes using a % of cpu that correspondes to the % free cpu value in the header part of the output. Ie, if the machine is 20% idle I expect to see the process %s to add up to roughly 80%. This seems no longer to be the case under 5.3-RELEASE and I'm rather confused by a 0% idle statement with the process %s adding up to only about 15% or so. The amount jumps around a bit and seems to bear the relationship I expect when there is light load, but it looks completely wrong to me when there is heavy load (as in compiling a port). Can anyone explain this seeming inconsistency to me? Sean
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