On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 07:15 -0700, Paula J. Lindsay wrote: > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ > COMMAND > 1 root 20 0 2112 588 508 S 0 0.0 0:02.94 > init > 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 > kthreadd [...] If you leave out the first 5 lines of 'top' (before the list of processes) you're leaving out a lot of important info, such as the system load average, memory occupancy, proportion of time spent in user/system state etc. It's important to include this so we can see what's happening. poc
