29 Apr
2005
29 Apr
'05
12:43 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 07:30:31AM +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
I have top running as well. Here the interesting part
is the difference
between (100% - 'idle time') and the sum of running processes. In the
case at hand there is 0% idle but only 65% used, indicating that some
heavy cache trashing might be going on. The X server uses almost
everything. Mmm, wait ... There is also 9% system time, probably the
pipe into the X server.
Top is pretty useless for measuring loads that aren't constant. It seems
to sample CPU loads at instants in time, which is why top is always high
on the list. I tend to use gkrellm.
- Steve