top: what processes use the CPU?

[Roberto Nunnari]

Stefan Bethke wrote:
> 
> Am 10.08.2006 um 08:38 schrieb Roberto Nunnari:
> 
>> Hello everybody.
>>
>> Just a short question: Why top doesn't any more show what
>> processes use the CPU? I mean.. 0.0% idle and the sum of the
>> processes CPU doesn't reach 1.0%..
>>
>> as an example, while make buildkernel top shows:
> 
> Because the cc processes are too short lived to consistently show up 
> when top is scanning the process table?

Ok.. but as idle CPU shows 0.0%, there should be a way of getting
the processes that finished already living but caused that 0.0% idle..

What if your users are running lot of short lived processes?
How can you find them out?

Thank you.
-- 
Robi