Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:12:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov (Glenn Johnson) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange output in "Top" Message-ID: <199709112112.OAA10852@usr03.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <34184980.49639858@nola.srrc.usda.gov> from "Glenn Johnson" at Sep 11, 97 02:41:52 pm
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> I just did a "make world" on my -current SMP system. I started up a > lengthy (weeks to complete) calculation and then checked 'top'. The WCPU > and CPU fields give me extremely low numbers. When no other processes > are running, the WCPU and CPU field hover around 0-1% for the > calculation process and the %idle field is around 98-99%. Strangely, if > I increase the system load, the WCPU and CPU %values go up, and keep > going up as the load goes up, but not to what I think they should be. > What the values should be is about 50% (100% of a single CPU) with no > other activity. The percentage of this process should decrease as I > increase the load. The idle processes went away; the non-accounting for them is probably the difference you are seeing. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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