On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Alexander Best wrote: >> It means (c). Kernel activity, short-lived transient processes, and >> imperfections in sampling data are the other ~13 / 10 %.... > > thanks. it seems in some cases these imperfections have quite an impact: > > last pid: 48135; load averages: 5.11, 5.38, 5.02 up 0+03:15:20 > 19:31:52 > 271 processes: 15 running, 242 sleeping, 14 waiting > CPU 0: 76.4% user, 0.0% nice, 21.7% system, 2.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle > CPU 1: 85.0% user, 0.0% nice, 12.6% system, 2.4% interrupt, 0.0% idle > Mem: 1078M Active, 334M Inact, 403M Wired, 79M Cache, 212M Buf, 68M Free > Swap: 18G Total, 438M Used, 18G Free, 2% Inuse > > PID UID THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND > 48131 0 1 77 0 92112K 67164K CPU1 1 0:02 17.77% cc1 > 48135 0 1 76 0 90992K 65712K RUN 0 0:01 15.87% cc1
Sure. Compiling software is a classic example where lots and lots of CPU intensive, short-lived processes are started. Pay attention to last pid field; if it is steadily growing, especially at a rapid rate, lots of processes are spawning.... Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"