In the last episode (Sep 15), Ian Smith said:
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > I would guess that maybe xmms (or some other threaded app) is your
> > hidden CPU consumer. The kernel does not calculate %CPU correctly
> > for libkse-threaded programs, and they usually show up as 0% al
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Sep 14), Ian Smith said:
> [..]>
> > However that doesn't explain this typical top view when the system is
> > quiescent or nearly so, as it mostly is, with only 5-minutely crons and
> > 11-minutely entropy runs and the odd sendmai
In the last episode (Sep 14), Ian Smith said:
> I still can't fathom what top tells me on a UP 5.5-STABLE system (300MHz
> Celeron if speed's relevant). I initiated this thread (weeks ago :) re
> seeing 0.0% idle (as expected) during buildworld but not seeing anything
> add up to anything like 100
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2006-09-14 00:48, "Tamouh H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I think TOP and load averages are no longer accurate on FBSD 5.x and
> > 6.x with SMP kernel. As far as I've seen. Load averages hit sometimes
> > 8.0 without a noticable degradation
On 2006-09-14 00:48, "Tamouh H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think TOP and load averages are no longer accurate on FBSD 5.x and
> 6.x with SMP kernel. As far as I've seen. Load averages hit sometimes
> 8.0 without a noticable degradation in performance.
>
> This is one TOP that freaked me out, n
In the last episode (Sep 14), Tamouh H. said:
> This is one TOP that freaked me out, notice Idle CPU is 70% while the
> process is showing it is using 99% of CPU. systat draws more accurate
> picture, however, load average is still useless as far as performance
> monitoring :
>
> last pid: 10174;
>
> In recent 6.X versions, you can use 'S' to show system threads too.
> For an even more fine-grained view, you can use 'H' to show
> each thread separately.
>
> Then there is also the 'CPU' mode (as opposed to the default 'WCPU'
> mode of top).
>
> > I've the same issue with FBSD 5.4 and TOP
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Ian Smith wrote:
> > But since running 5.x (5.5-STABLE since 1st Aug) top can show 0.0% idle
> > but the cpu usages shown don't add up to much of a fraction of 100%.
> [ ... ]
> > Any ideas why top hasn't much of a clue about what's consuming cpu?
>
Ian Smith wrote:
But since running 5.x (5.5-STABLE since 1st Aug) top can show 0.0% idle
but the cpu usages shown don't add up to much of a fraction of 100%.
[ ... ]
Any ideas why top hasn't much of a clue about what's consuming cpu?
Sure, if you're running a parallel make, that will be start
On 2006-08-10 00:45, "Tamouh H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But since running 5.x (5.5-STABLE since 1st Aug) top can show
> > 0.0% idle but the cpu usages shown don't add up to much of a
> > fraction of 100%.
In recent 6.X versions, you can use 'S' to show system threads too.
For an even mor
> But since running 5.x (5.5-STABLE since 1st Aug) top can show
> 0.0% idle but the cpu usages shown don't add up to much of a
> fraction of 100%.
>
> For a typical illustration: 'make index' has been running for
> hours, and here's a shot of 'nice top', o)rdered by cpu,
> showing S)ystem proc
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