On 14 February 2007 18:55, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Grant wrote: > > I just sat through about 5 minutes of 100% CPU usage and a thrashing > > hard disk. I ran top and it reported 0% idle CPU, but the list of > > processes totaled maybe 20% CPU usage. How can this be? > > > > - Grant > > Most likely you only looked at user cpu % and neglected to list the > system and niced times as well. > > p.s. golden rule: ps lies. top lies. free lies. > Don't believe the readings they give, rather interpret them in context.
!!! Golden rule of system administration: All these tools are notoriously wrong. Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
