In the last episode (Jun 08), Doug Hardie said: > I am running FreeBSD 4.6 and top does not show consistent data (at > least in my understanding). The cpu states line shows the percent of > time in user state. I would expect the percent processor used by all > the active processes to add up to something close to that. (single > processor machine). However, it never seems to come close. Often it > will show 25% user and the sums of the active processes utilizations > will be around 2%. Other times it will show 2% user and the sum of > the processes is over 10%. Is top wacky or is my understanding > wrong?
The %WCPU and %CPU columns are weighted averages over ~60 seconds, while the "CPU states" row is an instantaneous snapshot, so they will almost never total up. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"