Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:05:00 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: attila! <attila@hun.org>
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: very high CPU time demand from process #10 ('idle')
Message-ID: <20001010110500.A87663@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001008075120.693D71C2AB@hun.org>; from attila@hun.org on Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 07:51:20AM %2B0000
References: <20001008075120.693D71C2AB@hun.org>
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On Sunday, 8 October 2000 at 7:51:20 +0000, attila! wrote: > -- ps -ax -- > > 0 ?? DLs 0:00.40 (swapper) > 1 ?? ILs 0:00.07 /sbin/init -- > 2 ?? DL 0:04.23 (pagedaemon) > 3 ?? DL 0:00.65 (vmdaemon) > 4 ?? DL 0:00.70 (bufdaemon) > 5 ?? DL 0:44.85 (syncer) > 10 ?? RL 4986:29.70 (idle) > 11 ?? WL 5:43.86 (softinterrupt) > 12 ?? DL 24:58.44 (random) > 13 ?? WL 0:05.88 (irq10: ahc0) > 14 ?? WL 0:00.00 (irq11: dc0) > 15 ?? WL 0:14.91 (irq1: atkbd0) > 16 ?? WL 0:46.60 (irq12: psm0) > 17 ?? WL 0:00.00 (irq6: fdc0) > 18 ?? WL 0:00.08 (irq7: ppc0) > 19 ?? WL 3:19.82 (irq0: clk) > 20 ?? RL 5:43.47 (irq8: rtc) > > What is process 10? It's the idle process. > Is this literally a representation of the CPU idle time > accumulation for the 85 hours since boot? Yes. > Despite the enormous time burn on 'idle' it does not show on > 'top'. Yes, that didn't seem to make sense. Greg -- 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-current" in the body of the message
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