From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 9 18:36: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D930B37B503 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 18:35:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e9A1Z1I87697; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:05:01 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:05:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: attila! Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: very high CPU time demand from process #10 ('idle') Message-ID: <20001010110500.A87663@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20001008075120.693D71C2AB@hun.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20001008075120.693D71C2AB@hun.org>; from attila@hun.org on Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 07:51:20AM +0000 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-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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