On 27-Mar-01 David Wolfskill wrote:
>>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:21:45 -0800 (PST)
>>From: John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>>Keep in mind that we no longer charge interrupt time to the process being
>>interrupted, instead all that interrupt handling has been pushed off into
>>ithreads. Same for software interrupt threads.
>
> OK; that's a good & useful thing to keep in mind. And I did see some
> IRQ-related entries in top's output.
Are they getting %CPU though. When running top -S, the CPU %'s should always
add up to about 100 (with fudges for rounding errors).
>>That said, I don't see how X is so idle, it's certainly not on my laptop:
>
>> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
>> 454 john 4 0 44440K 43464K select 1:57 4.05% 4.05% XFree86
>> 461 john 4 0 17076K 16144K select 0:35 0.39% 0.39%
>> enlightenment
>> 492 john 4 10 3072K 2040K select 0:28 0.10% 0.10%
>> E-ScreenSave.
>
> Eh... the "enlightenment" line may provide a clue there. I use tvtwm as
> a window manager. :-} (I figure anything that could be marginally
> acceptable on a (maxed out) 24 MB Sun 3/60 ought to be adequate for this
> 750 MHz/256 MB laptop....)
Heh, but I figured Alfred was in X when he was running top, so X must've been
doing _some_ screen updates, and not just have 0.00% CPU time. :-P
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