On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:03:06AM -0700, Won De Erick wrote: > > The utilities you're using are correct (ps and top), but I don't know > > why you're using top -S since it's pretty apparent you don't know how to > > read the output. :-) > > thanks for the lights. > > I may not be well verse in interpreting the output, but I am using top -S to > make other system processes (like pager, swapper) visible. > I just wondered why the command name should be idle : cpu0, etc. instead of > giving a little bit more descriptive name (like what you said, kernel thread > bla bla). With this, it would be more understandable. An ordinary user like > me could mistakenly interpret it as an "actual" process.
First and foremost, I'm not sure why you cross-posted this on 3 separate lists (testing, performance, and hardware). You probably should have posted this on freebsd-questions, and if no response after a week or so, again on freebsd-stable (although you're using FreeBSD 6.2). It's generally shunned by the FreeBSD mailing list community to cross-post to so many lists. Just something to keep in mind for the future. > > You shouldn't be using -S if you're just interested in actual processes > > on the UNIX machine itself. > > Then what should I use? I am interested in getting the detailed info to > justify the %CPU idles and utilization. Of the entire machine? You can see that in top's header: last pid: 84636; load averages: 0.47, 0.14, 0.04 up 79+01:15:18 04:46:01 75 processes: 2 running, 70 sleeping, 3 stopped CPU: 28.6% user, 0.0% nice, 8.2% system, 0.0% interrupt, 63.3% idle Mem: 207M Active, 2433M Inact, 212M Wired, 91M Cache, 112M Buf, 57M Free Swap: 8192M Total, 228K Used, 8192M Free Regarding why you're adding up all the individual process statistics: I can imagine they would vary a slight bit, but I cannot explain a 7% variance. Someone with more knowledge will have to assist there. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
