On Sun, 19 Jan 2014, [email protected] wrote:
>       Running a fairly complex perl application (RT 4.2.2) as root (yes, 
> I know better, but don't care in this case), then using top(1) to 
> observe behaviour shows inconsistent "user" CPU times in the summary 
> compared to the detail below.  Yes, this is running inside a VM, 
> although I don't understand how that could affect the math...

Does this perl program often fork a child to do some chunk of work, which 
then exits after it's done?


Philip Guenther

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