Re: top(1) behavior

2023-08-11 Thread Martin Husemann
On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 02:13:12PM -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote: > When running something heavy yet ephemeral like a parallel make, I can > see expected CPU usage in the summary or per-cpu view. However, I > rarely see the process(es) consuming the CPU momentarily during the > update intervals refle

Re: top(1) behavior

2023-08-11 Thread Kevin Bowling
On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 2:01 AM Martin Husemann wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 02:13:12PM -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote: > > When running something heavy yet ephemeral like a parallel make, I can > > see expected CPU usage in the summary or per-cpu view. However, I > > rarely see the process(es)

Re: top(1) behavior

2023-08-11 Thread Martin Husemann
On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 07:04:01PM -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote: > A real example is doing a -j 8 kernel build. Up in the top of top(1), > I see global CPU usage in the high 90%. Down in the process list, I > see a few processes in the 1-10% range that do not add up to 800%. I > see some of the cc