Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-23 Thread Kip Macy
I've seen with libthr. What libraries are you using? -Kip On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Jiawei Ye wrote: On 8/16/06, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can mysql use 160%? Is this a reporting bug in top because mysql is threaded? You have multiple CPUs, so a

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-23 Thread Jiawei Ye
On 8/23/06, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen with libthr. What libraries are you using? -Kip libthr :) Jiawei -- Without the userland, the kernel is useless. --inspired by The Tao of Programming ___

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-21 Thread Jiawei Ye
On 8/16/06, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can mysql use 160%? Is this a reporting bug in top because mysql is threaded? You have multiple CPUs, so a threaded process can theoretically reach 100*ncpus cpu usage. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am seeing this on a

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2006-Aug-17 10:57:04 -0400, Bill LeFebvre wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: I just built top-3.6 on such a system, though, and it does report a simple main(){for(;;);} process as consuming 100 %CPU. Maybe you're thinking of Solaris's own prstat command? Heh. I released 3.6 with new SunOS code

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 17), Bill LeFebvre said: Mike Jakubik wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: How can mysql use 160%? Is this a reporting bug in top because mysql is threaded? You have multiple CPUs, so a threaded process can theoretically reach 100*ncpus cpu usage. Ahh, thats makes sense,

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-17 Thread Bill LeFebvre
Dan Nelson wrote: One problem is that method doesn't scale to lots of CPUs. On a Sun T2000 a non-threaded process consuming all of one CPU would only report 3.12 %CPU in that case (100/32). I agree. The alternative is having a 10-thread process on such a system report 1000% cpu utilization,

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-17 Thread O. Hartmann
Bill LeFebvre wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: I use FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE/AMD on an pure 64Bit box/environment, single CPU Athlon 3500+, and sometimes I can see a 100%+ usage of WCPU in 'xine' or 'transmission'. So this is definitely not related to multiple CPUs. WCPU is supposed to be weighted in

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 16, 2006, at 10:28 PM, Bill LeFebvre wrote: You have multiple CPUs, so a threaded process can theoretically reach 100*ncpus cpu usage. Ahh, thats makes sense, thanks. Actually it doesn't. IMO, %CPU should be biased for all available cpu, not just a single cpu. In other words, a

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-17 Thread Brent Casavant
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Aug 16, 2006, at 10:28 PM, Bill LeFebvre wrote: You have multiple CPUs, so a threaded process can theoretically reach 100*ncpus cpu usage. Ahh, thats makes sense, thanks. Actually it doesn't. IMO, %CPU should be biased for all

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 17), Brent Casavant said: Note that IRIX's top does not bias for availabile CPUs -- I've seen well-threaded programs using in excess of 2400% CPU. What it comes down to is that depending on the nature of the information you're trying to glean from WCPU, you may want

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-17 Thread Brent Casavant
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 17), Brent Casavant said: Note that IRIX's top does not bias for availabile CPUs -- I've seen well-threaded programs using in excess of 2400% CPU. What it comes down to is that depending on the nature of the information

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-16 Thread O. Hartmann
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 15), Mike Jakubik said: 35 processes: 7 running, 28 sleeping CPU states: 58.1% user, 0.0% nice, 38.4% system, 1.1% interrupt, 2.4% idle Mem: 642M Active, 416M Inact, 125M Wired, 112M Buf, 825M Free Swap: 4071M Total, 4071M Free PID USERNAME

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-16 Thread Bill LeFebvre
Mike Jakubik wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: How can mysql use 160%? Is this a reporting bug in top because mysql is threaded? You have multiple CPUs, so a threaded process can theoretically reach 100*ncpus cpu usage. Ahh, thats makes sense, thanks. Actually it doesn't. IMO, %CPU

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-16 Thread Bill LeFebvre
O. Hartmann wrote: I use FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE/AMD on an pure 64Bit box/environment, single CPU Athlon 3500+, and sometimes I can see a 100%+ usage of WCPU in 'xine' or 'transmission'. So this is definitely not related to multiple CPUs. WCPU is supposed to be weighted in some way to take swap

TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-15 Thread Mike Jakubik
last pid: 747; load averages: 2.69, 1.03, 0.58 up 0+01:40:40 10:14:29 35 processes: 7 running, 28 sleeping CPU states: 58.1% user, 0.0% nice, 38.4% system, 1.1% interrupt, 2.4% idle Mem: 642M Active, 416M Inact, 125M Wired, 112M Buf, 825M Free

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 15), Mike Jakubik said: 35 processes: 7 running, 28 sleeping CPU states: 58.1% user, 0.0% nice, 38.4% system, 1.1% interrupt, 2.4% idle Mem: 642M Active, 416M Inact, 125M Wired, 112M Buf, 825M Free Swap: 4071M Total, 4071M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE

Re: TOP shows above 100% WCPU usage

2006-08-15 Thread Mike Jakubik
Dan Nelson wrote: How can mysql use 160%? Is this a reporting bug in top because mysql is threaded? You have multiple CPUs, so a threaded process can theoretically reach 100*ncpus cpu usage. Ahh, thats makes sense, thanks. ___