From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 11 14:12:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA18482 for current-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 14:12:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr03.primenet.com (tlambert@usr03.primenet.com [206.165.6.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA18473 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 14:12:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr03.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA10852; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 14:12:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709112112.OAA10852@usr03.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Strange output in "Top" To: gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov (Glenn Johnson) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:12:17 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <34184980.49639858@nola.srrc.usda.gov> from "Glenn Johnson" at Sep 11, 97 02:41:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.