>>> 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

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