From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 27 11:57:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C8D37B71D for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:57:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2RJv2G61751; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:57:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200103271846.f2RIkxF15850@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:56:38 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: David Wolfskill Subject: Re: top output broked? Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Mar-01 David Wolfskill wrote: >>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:21:45 -0800 (PST) >>From: John Baldwin > >>Keep in mind that we no longer charge interrupt time to the process being >>interrupted, instead all that interrupt handling has been pushed off into >>ithreads. Same for software interrupt threads. > > OK; that's a good & useful thing to keep in mind. And I did see some > IRQ-related entries in top's output. Are they getting %CPU though. When running top -S, the CPU %'s should always add up to about 100 (with fudges for rounding errors). >>That said, I don't see how X is so idle, it's certainly not on my laptop: > >> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND >> 454 john 4 0 44440K 43464K select 1:57 4.05% 4.05% XFree86 >> 461 john 4 0 17076K 16144K select 0:35 0.39% 0.39% >> enlightenment >> 492 john 4 10 3072K 2040K select 0:28 0.10% 0.10% >> E-ScreenSave. > > Eh... the "enlightenment" line may provide a clue there. I use tvtwm as > a window manager. :-} (I figure anything that could be marginally > acceptable on a (maxed out) 24 MB Sun 3/60 ought to be adequate for this > 750 MHz/256 MB laptop....) Heh, but I figured Alfred was in X when he was running top, so X must've been doing _some_ screen updates, and not just have 0.00% CPU time. :-P -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message