>>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:29 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 28, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Levy, Alan wrote: > >> When I do a TOP, the Performance Toolkit shows a spike to 90% of the >> cpu. When I ctrl- C out of top, it goes down to 32% (normal). -snip- >> When I do a PS, it pages on forever (actually 400+ processes). -snip-
> That's a pretty obscene amount of resource consumption by top. I > don't *think* it should be doing that to you. When you get up to that many processes running, top does indeed do that to you. I suspect there are some serious opportunities for code optimization in top. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
