I read in the ps man page that the cputime can be displayed instead of cputime/realtime percentage. Is somebody know how to it? Thanks yahav
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ehud Karni Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 5:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem in top utility > > I looked at the man page of ps on the definition of CPU time and I didn't > understand it. > " %CPU shows the cputime/realtime percentage. It will not add up to 100% > unless you are lucky. It is time used divided by the time the process > has been running." > > It means that in order to get true results I need to restart the monitored > process before each test. > Correct? No. > What is the realtime? Realtime is the clock time (elapsed time). Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
