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no problem |
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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@×××××.com> |
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To: <gentoo-user@l.g.o> |
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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:07 AM |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help interpreting top(1) display |
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> Okay, thanks. They are indeed niced, because there are a lot of them, and |
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> I would like my keystrokes echoed sometime today.... |
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> OTOH, where can I read about the others? |
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> ++ kevin |
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> On 7/5/05, Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On 7/5/05, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > Cpu0 : 1.3% us, 1.9% sy, 96.0% ni, 0.8% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, |
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0.0% si |
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> > > I'm running a bunch of compute-bound tasks, so I suppose the 'ni' |
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fields |
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> > > indicate heavy use, but what exactly does 'ni' mean? And what do the |
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other |
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> > > fields mean -- if the 'us' field means 'user' then I'm really baffled. |
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> > > The man page is most helpful in deciphering the task displays, but I |
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was |
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> > > unable to find a part about the header fields. |
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> > > -- |
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> > > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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> > The full names for the first three are user, system, and nice. It |
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> > appears that the tasks your are running are being run 'niced', see man |
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> > nice. The priority is set to lower (or possibly higher, i'm not |
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> > sure...) than regular tasks in the system, and the cpu usage shows up |
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> > under nice instead of user. |
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> > -- |
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> > Calvin Walton |
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> -- |
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> Go back to the top: I almost always top-post |
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> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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