From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HHnc7-0007eU-FV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:53:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1FKqpJ3026791; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:52:51 GMT Received: from aa014msr.fastwebnet.it (aa014msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.74]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1FKmkcC022235 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:48:46 GMT Received: from [37.1.3.90] (37.1.3.90) by aa014msr.fastwebnet.it (7.3.105.6) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 45D4825E0003A624 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:48:46 +0100 Message-ID: <45D4D85E.9040502@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:02:06 +0000 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070123) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 100% CPU usage with no processes to blame? References: <49bf44f10702140823g41f20636ka3bd4bab0f45b10e@mail.gmail.com> <200702141855.18707.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <93ae19410702140925i7bf3e1c0h5887993483066cfe@mail.gmail.com> <200702150935.21096.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <558b73fb0702150612i14ebecdhbd3d549b80b52fe8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <558b73fb0702150612i14ebecdhbd3d549b80b52fe8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2b736321-1739-4c44-9d32-39f1647253b5 X-Archives-Hash: 5d96aca76a325c97c406d8ce2c69c0e6 Michael Crute ha scritto: >> You should use ps, top and free of course! Just realize that they lie... > > Seeing this thread reminded me of a blog article I saw on Virtual > Threads a while back... > http://virtualthreads.blogspot.com/2006/02/understanding-memory-usage-on-linux.html > > > He does a pretty good job of explaining where top gets its numbers and > how to properly interpret them. HTH Nice post. Thanks for the link. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list