no problem ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:07 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help interpreting top(1) display
> Okay, thanks. They are indeed niced, because there are a lot of them, and > I would like my keystrokes echoed sometime today.... > > OTOH, where can I read about the others? > > ++ kevin > > On 7/5/05, Calvin Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/5/05, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Cpu0 : 1.3% us, 1.9% sy, 96.0% ni, 0.8% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si > > > > > > I'm running a bunch of compute-bound tasks, so I suppose the 'ni' fields > > > indicate heavy use, but what exactly does 'ni' mean? And what do the other > > > fields mean -- if the 'us' field means 'user' then I'm really baffled. > > > > > > The man page is most helpful in deciphering the task displays, but I was > > > unable to find a part about the header fields. > > > -- > > > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD > > > > The full names for the first three are user, system, and nice. It > > appears that the tasks your are running are being run 'niced', see man > > nice. The priority is set to lower (or possibly higher, i'm not > > sure...) than regular tasks in the system, and the cpu usage shows up > > under nice instead of user. > > > > -- > > Calvin Walton > > > -- > Go back to the top: I almost always top-post > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
