Ritesh Raj Sarraf, on Tue 09 Feb 2016 18:18:18 +0530, wrote: > I can't really understand why there are 76 procs for /hurd/term
Probably some program simply ran ls /dev, which thus triggers terms. But that's really not a problem, that doesn't consume too much memory or CPU. > More than that, in the top reports I see huge process listings of > various processes (storeio, term). Similarly. > From the report, you can see the CPU being almost 100% User Consumed. By ext2fs and dpkg, that's not surprising. I'm just surprised that it takes long. Also, procfs is involved, how frequent do you make top refresh its output? The way it gets information from procfs may not be so efficient. Samuel
