From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 24 17:32:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C11C37B422 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 17:32:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9A1F96ACBC; Fri, 25 May 2001 10:02:22 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:02:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Top status from an SMP box Message-ID: <20010525100222.D26315@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010524124125.A20301@everest.wananchi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010524124125.A20301@everest.wananchi.com>; from wash@wananchi.com on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:41:25PM +0300 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 Thursday, 24 May 2001 at 12:41:25 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hello gurus, > I am running an SMP box but the output of 'top' seems to confuse me. > > From 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% You don't say: 1. What version of FreeBSD you're running. 2. How you invoke top. 3. Why you think the load should be round 80%. There's nothing to suggest that in the output you show. I suspect that you might have a problem with a version mismatch. The entire output above looks somewhat strange. I'm sure you don't really have 202921 processes running, for example, and there's obvious mutilation in the text. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message