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Date:      Sun, 23 Dec 2001 08:36:16 +0000
From:      void <float@firedrake.org>
To:        Ron Hensley <ronh@intercom.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: top output -- what's going on here?
Message-ID:  <20011223083616.A1381@parhelion.firedrake.org>
In-Reply-To: <004301c18b84$a83787c0$0273150a@woodstock.lanalyse.com>
References:  <20011223063011.A30966@parhelion.firedrake.org> <004301c18b84$a83787c0$0273150a@woodstock.lanalyse.com>

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I was running top with "-I", meaning I told it not to show me idle
processes.  Sorry, I should have mentioned this in the original mail.

On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 02:37:16AM -0500, Ron Hensley wrote:
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> Note it says 73 processes running. Top is only showing you 6 processes
> there, generally 10 at most in the default interactive mode. Run it in batch
> mode and tell it to show you like 75 processes so you see all 73
>   #top -b 75
> 
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: "void" <float@firedrake.org>
> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 1:30 AM
> Subject: top output -- what's going on here?
> 
> 
> > Top is telling me that 56.6% of my CPU is in use, but the WCPU and
> > CPU columns both add up to under 2%.  What's the reason for this
> > inconsistency?
> >
> > last pid: 97907;  load averages:  3.90,  3.78,  2.17    up 0+00:27:44
> 01:26:15
> > 73 processes:  4 running, 43 sleeping, 26 stopped
> > CPU states: 56.6% user,  0.0% nice, 43.4% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0%
> idle
> > Mem: 37M Active, 56M Inact, 19M Wired, 8980K Cache, 22M Buf, 1280K Free
> > Swap: 401M Total, 1296K Used, 400M Free, 48K Out
> >
> >   PID USERNAME  PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
> > 11777 root       -6   0  2456K  1836K piperd   0:05  1.07%  1.07% ruby16
> > 94954 root        2   0   828K   668K select   0:00  0.50%  0.20% make
> >   257 ben        28   0  1540K  1040K RUN      0:06  0.00%  0.00% top
> > 97905 root       60   0   476K   336K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% make
> > 97907 root       60   0   632K   332K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% sh
> > 97906 root       60   0   612K   296K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% sh
> >
> > --
> >  Ben
> >
> > "An art scene of delight
> >  I created this to be ..." -- Sun Ra
> >
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-- 
 Ben

"An art scene of delight
 I created this to be ..."		-- Sun Ra

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