Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Jul 2000 00:26:06 +0200 | From | Richard Zidlicky <> | Subject | Re: Why so must idle time ? |
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On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 04:54:52PM +0200, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > I have a machine running web server. It has a lot of httpd's loaded and > most of them are sleeping. The load average is always around 7-13, so I > wonder why the CPU usage doesn't reach ~100%. It wastes CPU time or > simply there is something top does not show ?
yes, top gets its stats once every 5 secs and (obviously) considers only existing procesess. A process that exited 0.01 secs before top collected its stats simply doesn't leave any trace - top has no chance but to mark the time it consumed as idle.
Bye Richard
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