From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 12:24:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67FBD37B407 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Exel@SpeakEasy.Net) Received: (qmail 86504 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2001 19:24:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO POWERHOUSE) ([216.27.144.120]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 Aug 2001 19:24:19 -0000 From: "Alex Vargas" To: "Michael Lucas" , Subject: RE: top "nice" CPU usage % Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:31:53 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20010818122604.A61443@blackhelicopters.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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