On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 21:01, Bradley Tate wrote: > Hi, > > For some reason 'top' isn't displaying a particular application > correctly. The box is adual Opteron 64 bit server running an up-to-date > FC2. > > On the normal Processor display under top Firebird 1.5 (32 bit database) > doesn't show up at all. If I shift-M to display memory a single entry > appears at the top of the list. I can see it with 'ps', and even while > CPU activity is at 98% and I know it's Firebird doing it there is > nothing on the top screen to indicate it exists. > > It shows up fine on another similar box running Suse 9.1, i.e. 2.6 > kernel. FWIW I pulled top down to the FC2 box from Suse and it made no > difference. > > Has anybody got any good ideas how I can approach/fix this?? I'd install > Suse but it hates something about the SATA configuration on my hardware > and won't install cleanly. > > Thanks, > Bradley. >From the top man page; "It can sort the tasks by CPU usage, memory usage and runtime." ----- "Most features can either be selected by an interactive command or by specifying the feature in the personal or system-wide configuration file." It appears to me that the sorting option is different for Suse. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
