From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 29 15:10:17 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA20930 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 15:10:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [199.166.238.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA20924 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 15:10:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA06938; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 18:09:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 18:09:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-Sender: scrappy@hub.org To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: CPU question (%ages) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi... I'm running xperfmon++ over here to watch the systems, and am a little confused. Its reporting stuff like 21% for user, 44% for System and 90% idle... I realize that what its reporting is the peaks, and not what it is currently at, but how accurate is this? What exactly is 'System'? Is that mainly kernel functions? root processes? And User? Just trying to get a full understanding of how exactly I should be interpreting these stats... Thanks... Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc