top: what processes use the CPU?

[Roberto Nunnari]

Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Roberto Nunnari wrote:
>> Stefan Bethke wrote:
> [ ... ]
>>> 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?
> 
> You could set up process accounting as documented here:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security-accounting.html 
> 
> 

Thank you. I'll take a look at that.

-- 
Robi