In the last episode (Sep 14), Tamouh H. said:
> This is one TOP that freaked me out, notice Idle CPU is 70% while the
> process is showing it is using 99% of CPU. systat draws more accurate
> picture, however, load average is still useless as far as performance
> monitoring :
>
> last pid: 10174; load averages: 1.63, 1.44, 1.20
> up 4+00:25:19 00:39:20
> 169 processes: 2 running, 166 sleeping, 1 zombie
> CPU states: 25.8% user, 0.0% nice, 0.7% system, 0.1% interrupt, 73.4% idle
> Mem: 1316M Active, 1445M Inact, 297M Wired, 127M Cache, 112M Buf, 79M Free
> Swap: 8762M Total, 2096K Used, 8760M Free
>
> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
> 13362 root 111 0 36444K 34196K CPU3 3 50:06 98.88% 98.88% perl5.8.7
> 90391 root 96 0 27356K 26236K select 2 0:06 0.54% 0.54% perl5.8.7
> 79619 nobody 4 0 209M 84640K sbwait 1 0:09 0.39% 0.39% httpd
> 10161 root 97 0 6712K 4752K select 2 0:00 1.40% 0.20%
> exim-4.62-0
> 79649 nobody 20 0 210M 84464K lockf 0 0:06 0.15% 0.15% httpd
You have a 4-cpu box and pid 13362 is using 99% of one CPU. The other
3 are idle, so your %idle is going to be around 75%. Looks pretty
accurate to me :)
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Dan Nelson
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