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On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Grant wrote: |
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> I just sat through about 5 minutes of 100% CPU usage and a thrashing |
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> hard disk. I ran top and it reported 0% idle CPU, but the list of |
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> processes totaled maybe 20% CPU usage. How can this be? |
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> - Grant |
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Most likely you only looked at user cpu % and neglected to list the |
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system and niced times as well. |
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p.s. golden rule: ps lies. top lies. free lies. |
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Don't believe the readings they give, rather interpret them in context. |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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