top: what processes use the CPU?

[Chuck Swiger]

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

-- 
-Chuck