From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 22 10:29:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA20604 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 10:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from synwork.com (flaq@synwork.com [199.3.234.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA20596 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 10:29:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (flaq@localhost) by synwork.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA16250 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 12:29:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 12:29:49 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mike K." To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: User vs kernel PPP Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a question. Until yesterday, I used to run PPP from a prompt and login and the ppp process used very little cpu time when looking at TOP. Now, I assume I am running kernel ppp since I have cron verify my modem connection and restart if it detects a dropped carrier. Below is a capture of my TOP and I am wondering if the amount of CPU time ppp is using is normal? Does this effect my system performance and is there a work around? load averages: 1.20, 1.08, 1.05 12:24:12 44 processes: 2 running, 42 sleeping Cpu states: 33.3% user, 0.0% nice, 65.1% system, 1.5% interrupt, 0.0% idle Memory: 16M Active, 2220K Inact, 4492K Wired, 2040K Cache, 1520K Free Swap: 77M Total, 65M Free, 15% Inuse PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 9567 root 90 0 476K 204K run 17.9H 83.77% 83.77% ppp 9283 flaq 2 0 4064K 3656K sleep 41:09 11.75% 11.75% Xaccel 16219 flaq 32 0 432K 836K run 0:00 5.34% 1.18% top 11879 flaq 2 0 1180K 1580K sleep 4:03 0.50% 0.50% irc-2.8.2-EPIC 16215 flaq 2 0 448K 1596K sleep 0:01 0.15% 0.15% xterm 9304 flaq 2 0 468K 460K sleep 1:30 0.11% 0.11% xterm 16216 flaq 18 0 640K 956K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tcsh 9311 flaq 18 0 640K 372K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tcsh 115 root 18 0 280K 248K sleep 0:22 0.00% 0.00% cron 7288 flaq 18 0 644K 0K sleep 0:01 0.00% 0.00% 22 root 18 0 216K 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% 102 root 10 0 372K 120K sleep 4:41 0.00% 0.00% httpd 1 root 10 0 364K 72K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% init 9276 flaq 10 0 476K 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% 11073 flaq 10 0 464K 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% 0.00% ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Syn-Work Media, Inc. | WWW Development & Hosting | Life Safety http://www.synwork.com | Systems Integration | CCTV mike@synwork.com | Voice/Data/Fiber | Access Control Flaq on IRC | Dukane Distributor | BICSI/RCDD ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~