top shows only few or no processes on a loaded machine

[Andreas Klemm]

Top displays running processes very rarely.

last pid:  9284;  load averages:  2.13,  0.83,  0.39    up 0+03:34:17  18:32:25
88 processes:  3 running, 85 sleeping
CPU states:  4.7% user, 57.8% nice, 34.4% system,  0.0% interrupt,  3.1% idle
Mem: 111M Active, 269M Inact, 88M Wired, 24M Cache, 60M Buf, 6288K Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 220K Used, 1024M Free

  PID USERNAME  PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND

I use "s1" and "i".

I have the subjective feeling, that in former versions of FreeBSD
top displayed processes more regulary. Now very often the list
of processes is relatively unpopulated although the machine is busy
doing things.

Is this due to changes in design of the scheduler ?

Im using the BSD scheduler not ULE.

	Andreas ///

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