From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 15 12: 4:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE3C37B400 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:04:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2FK3rq28349; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 09:03:53 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 09:03:53 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Jesse Geddis Cc: Kris Kennaway , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: top wrong again? Message-ID: <20020316090353.A27877@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020315153245.B1282@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from sgeine@yahoo.com on Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:38:49PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:38:49PM -0800, Jesse Geddis wrote: > here, different machine while compiling the kernel. maybe this is more > along the lines of the original email: As another poster has said, the problem with running buildworld is that processes get created and finish so quickly, that you rarely get to see the process that's hogging the processor. If you hit the bar heaps of times, you may see the "cc/as/cc1" processes hit the chart. The best is to run the buildworld on a *slow* box (eg a 486) and you will see all the CPU hoggers hit the top(1) charts as it struggles through the build. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesus saves. Allah forgives. Cthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message