misc/129027: ambigious output for top

[Lowell Gilbert]

The following reply was made to PR bin/129027; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-bugs-local at be-well.ilk.org>
To: Eugen Konkov <kes-kes at yandex.ru>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/129027: ambigious output for top
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:43:13 -0500

 Eugen Konkov <kes-kes at yandex.ru> writes:
 
 >>Number:         129027
 >>Category:       misc
 >>Synopsis:       ambigious output for top
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       non-critical
 >>Priority:       low
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 >>State:          open
 >>Quarter:        
 >>Keywords:       
 >>Date-Required:
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 20 22:30:02 UTC 2008
 >>Closed-Date:
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     Eugen Konkov
 >>Release:        
 >>Organization:
 > ISP Konkov
 >>Environment:
 >>Description:
 > NOTICE: idle, 5.8% and 74.85% what is right?
 
 The 74.85 is "WCPU", and the "5.8" is "CPU".
 The former is calculated over a longer period of time than the latter.
 The manual for top(1) mentions the distinction, and how to switch the
 per-process value between both modes.
 
 > top -SI
 >
 > CPU: 32.2% user,  0.0% nice, 50.8% system, 11.2% interrupt,  5.8% idle
 > Mem: 248M Active, 113M Inact, 108M Wired, 17M Cache, 60M Buf, 7856K Free
 > Swap: 1024M Total, 31M Used, 992M Free, 3% Inuse
 >
 >   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
 >    11 root          1 171 ki31     0K     8K RUN     66.8H 74.85% idle
 >  1330 mysql        37  61    0 51732K 17700K RUN      9:52 17.72% mysqld
 > 41803 root          1  47    0  6036K  2852K select 219:29  2.64% ppp
 >    19 root          1 -68    -     0K     8K WAIT    85:21  1.12% irq11: rl0 rl4+
 >    22 root          1 -68    -     0K     8K WAIT    63:57  0.78% irq5: rl1 rl2
 >    12 root          1 -44    -     0K     8K WAIT    88:33  0.29% swi1: net
 > 96385 root          1 -32    0  3532K  1652K RUN      0:00  0.10% top
 > 55095 freeradius    9   4    0 58984K 54560K sbwait   0:21  0.05% radiusd
 >
 >
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 > #top -SI
 >>Fix:
 >
 >
 >>Release-Note:
 >>Audit-Trail:
 >>Unformatted:
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