On 2007-02-20, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tyler Smith wrote: >> On 2007-02-19, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Sorry for reposting, but I should add that my concern stems in part >> from top reporting that 27% of the CPU is being used by users, and 73% >> by system, which conflicts with the line item for paup, a user >> process, which shows 99% CPU use. So I'm not sure if paup is using 99% >> or 27% of the CPU: > > This is not a conflict. There are no such thing as "user processes" > and "system processes". You are looking at different kinds of breakdown. > >> Cpu(s): 26.7%us, 73.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, >> 0.0%st >> >> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND >> >> 14385 tyler 25 0 141m 140m 660 R 99.7 9.3 82:34.35 paup > > What this says is that paup is using all (99.7%) of the CPU, and that > of this 26.7% is spent executing in user mode, and 73.3% is > spent executing in supervisor mode. Ordinary programs switch > the operating mode of the processor by making system calls. > The time allocated to the process is partly in user mode, and > partly in system mode. If you read the manual page for "time" > you'll get a little more information. > > HTH >
Thanks, that does help. I went through the docs for 'top' but didn't find what I needed. -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
