* Arnaud Bergeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050703 03:09]: > All it takes to find that out is a little bit of observation and > deduction. From the second output you provided you should see md5's > CPU usage go up rapidly.
No. md5's CPU doesn't go up. If I try "john -t" it slowly goes up. Let's stick with "john -t" 'cause it's real CPU hog. top(1) output show a CPU-Usage going up slowly, showing different numbers than ps(1). load averages: 1.80, 1.15, 0.68 09:25:13 51 processes: 1 running, 49 idle, 1 on processor CPU states: 97.0% user, 0.0% nice, 2.5% system, 0.5% interrupt, 0.0% idle Memory: Real: 45M/116M act/tot Free: 374M Swap: 0K/1024M used/tot PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE WAIT TIME CPU COMMAND 7399 moo 64 0 3208K 952K run - 0:10 36.47% john 13289 moo 2 0 18M 22M sleep select 0:21 0.05% Xorg 16577 moo 2 0 2924K 3588K sleep select 0:08 0.00% xterm 13376 moo 10 0 4332K 2832K idle wait 0:00 0.00% mutt 26326 moo 2 0 3000K 3600K sleep select 0:00 0.00% xterm $ while true; do ps -ax -opcpu -ocommand | grep john | grep -v grep ; sleep 1; done 45.0 john -t 71.8 john -t 80.9 john -t 85.0 john -t 87.8 john -t 89.6 john -t 90.7 john -t 91.7 john -t 92.1 john -t 92.6 john -t 93.1 john -t 93.5 john -t 93.9 john -t And these numbers were taken parallel in two xterm, so 36.47% from top(1) showed up wile ps(1) was reporting 90+ percent CPU. > Now, if you're not happy with that, you're > welcome to fix it yourself As always... Too bad I'm not a developer.