From: "Michael Crute" <mcrute@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 100% CPU usage with no processes to blame?
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:12:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <558b73fb0702150612i14ebecdhbd3d549b80b52fe8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702150935.21096.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
On 2/15/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 February 2007, brullo nulla wrote:
> > > Most likely you only looked at user cpu % and neglected to list the
> > > system and niced times as well.
> > >
> > > p.s. golden rule: ps lies. top lies. free lies.
> > > Don't believe the readings they give, rather interpret them in
> > > context.
> >
> > sob. it's not the first time I hear this. What should I believe to
> > really know my system state?
>
> 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
-mike
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-14 16:23 [gentoo-user] 100% CPU usage with no processes to blame? Grant
2007-02-14 16:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-14 17:25 ` brullo nulla
2007-02-14 18:14 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-14 18:31 ` Timothy A. Holmes
2007-02-14 18:52 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-02-15 7:39 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-14 18:28 ` Jerry McBride
2007-02-14 19:48 ` Pongrácz István
2007-02-14 20:38 ` Jerry McBride
2007-02-14 21:42 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-02-15 7:35 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-15 14:12 ` Michael Crute [this message]
2007-02-15 22:02 ` b.n.
2007-02-16 20:08 ` Mick
2007-02-16 20:55 ` Grant
2007-02-16 22:53 ` Alex Schuster
2007-02-19 8:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-14 17:26 ` Uwe Thiem
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