(Wrong) CPU utilization reported by top

[Václav Haisman]

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote, On 23.9.2006 23:42:
> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:16:23 +0200
> Václav Haisman <V.Haisman at sh.cvut.cz> wrote:
> 
>> ...it doesn't show a single process that would have over 1% of WCPU or CPU!
>>
>>   PID USERNAME         THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU
>> COMMAND
> 
> My guess is that you're seeing weighted CPU time and want unweighted.  If so,
> press C (upper-case).  top will change the header to "CPU" instead of "WCPU"
> right after.
> 
> But I must agree that (sometimes, at least) top seems to not show an exact
> picture of the current CPU usage by the processes.
> 
I have tried that before I posted. The result is always 0% for vlc.

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VH

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