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.
Try one of these:
top -n1
or to test its friendliness:
time top -n1
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Cheers
John
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