For the purposes talked about in this case, the "free" command is sufficient.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of barton Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 2:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Vdisk I think there is a better opportunity for a performance monitor that doesn't cost "obscene" amounts of resource, and reports correctly.... (Oh yah, ESALPS comes to mind) Mark Post wrote: >>>>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
