Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:31:53 -0400 From: "Alex Vargas" <Exel@SpeakEasy.Net> To: "Michael Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: top "nice" CPU usage % Message-ID: <ONEEJMFOJLJHIMJMLPMIGECLCHAA.Exel@SpeakEasy.Net> In-Reply-To: <20010818122604.A61443@blackhelicopters.org>
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Mike, I'll take a stab at this: Top lists various information on system utilization, among them is the number of processes in each state (sleeping, running, starting, zombies, and stopped), and a percentage of time spent in each of the processor states (user, nice, system, and idle). Nice = nice(1) - execute a command at a low scheduling priority nice(3) - set program scheduling priority renice(8) - alter priority of running processes and you can also use vgrind vgrind(1) - grind nice listings of programs Hope this gives you some direction. aV -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Michael Lucas Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 12:26 PM To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: top "nice" CPU usage % Hello, I've been through man pages, web sites, and am slowly going nuts. top(1) includes percentages for the four "processor states"; user, nice, system, and idle. I know what three of them are, but what is the "nice" state? I would guess ( and probably be wrong ) that it has something to do with process nice/renice. Can anyone point me to a description? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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