On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 14:39, Fons van der Beek wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 02:29, Fons van der Beek wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > Allthough the new top utility looks very good, I am not able to see all > > > processes > > > > I think you want to press the i key to toggle display of idle processes. > > > > I believe that option by default hides idle processes. > > > > Check the man page for top it has a much better explanation of that > > option. I believe you can also use a -i option when you start top to > > toggle this at startup. > > > > I'am really sorry, the overall cpu usage is 95% user and 5% system usage > But all processes together dont come near the summ ................(also not > with i pressed) > > I realy don't get it.... I'am converting emails, mozzilla, dbmail (mysql > database) but i don't see them > i has been pressed, u with blank has been pressed, sorted on cpu % but > no............I don't get it Is it always showing 95% utilization? It has been my experience that many processes on Linux systems are very short-lived; shorter than the cycle time of top. This is especially true for any machine with a multi-gigahertz CPU. When I run make on a large software package, it is obvious from its output that there are many invocations of the compiler, and the total CPU usage is quite high, but I may not see any process in top with greater than 5% CPU. They all (most all) complete between cycles of top, therefore top will not see those processes. top takes a snapshot of the system at the time it wakes up. Any process that exits prior to a snapshot will not be reported by top. Perhaps you need to look at the rate of process creation: gkrellm can do this. -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks@xxxxxxxxx>
