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Bill Moran
wmoran at potentialtech.com
Fri Mar 2 16:00:04 UTC 2007
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In response to "Grant Peel" <gpeel at thenetnow.com>:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Moran" <wmoran at potentialtech.com>
>
> > In response to "Grant Peel" <gpeel at thenetnow.com>:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> FreeBSD 'top' 6.n does not seem to show anything when the i flag (don't
> >> display idle processes). the whole display (below the mem and cpu
> >> information header) goes blank.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >
> > Maybe all your processes are idle? What's the header look like when you
> > do this? 99.9% idle, perhaps?
>
> I have seen it drop to < 50% idle, with no process showing. Again, this is
> when 'i' is selected.
>
> HEre is a quick capture I was able to get, note nothing showing in the
> process section. This had to be set to 5 secs refresh as I couldn't capture
> the cup usage fast enough at 1 second.
I played with this a bit. It seems that top calculates whether a process
is "idle" or not with a heavy bias toward "idle". I didn't look in to the
code, but it seems like a process has to be running for the lion's share of
the calculated timeslice for it to be considered non-idle.
I don't know if this is intended behaviour or not, but it's not "broken", at
worst it's "badly dinged" ;) Try this in another shell while watching
top:
while true; do STUFF="$PATH"; done
and it will show up. My guess is that your usage is caused by many small
processes, each taking up a small portion of the total CPU, but none taking
up enough CPU to be considered non-idle by top.
>
>
> last pid: 20389; load averages: 0.01, 0.23, 0.38
> up 93+11:18:57 09:53:35
> 106 processes: 2 running, 102 sleeping, 2 zombie
> CPU states: 8.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.5% system, 0.0% interrupt, 90.5%
> idle
> Mem: 191M Active, 64M Inact, 125M Wired, 3768K Cache, 60M Buf, 110M Free
> Swap: 2048M Total, 189M Used, 1859M Free, 9% Inuse, 4K In
>
> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
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Bill Moran
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