interpreting `top` output ... ?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu May 8 13:24:40 PDT 2003


In the last episode (May 08), Josh Brooks said:
> I have a few questions about the output of `top`.  First off, the
> TIME column...does that represent the amount of real world time that
> the application has been running for ?
> 
> I am guessing it does not, because sometimes I watch `top` and it
> does not increment second by second..so if it does not, what does it
> stand for ?

TIME is in CPU-seconds, so a process using 50% CPU will increment TIME
at about 1/2 wall-clock time.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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