cvs commit: src/contrib/top commands.c machine.h top.c src/usr.bin/top machine.c

[juli mallett]

* Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> [ Date: 2005-05-23 ]
	[ w.r.t. Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/top commands.c machine.h top.c src/usr.bin/top machine.c ]
> Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> >On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:33:44AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> >
> >>On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 01:30:08PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >>
> >>>keramida    2005-05-18 13:30:08 UTC
> >>>
> >>> FreeBSD src repository (doc committer)
> >>>
> >>> Modified files:
> >>>   contrib/top          commands.c machine.h top.c 
> >>>   usr.bin/top          machine.c 
> >>> Log:
> >>> Merge the CPU and WCPU columns in a single %6.2f column, add a new 'C'
> >>> command that toggles between the two and update the ORDER_PCTCPU()
> >>> macro to sort correctly by the visible "cpu" value.
> >>
> >>Having both CPU and WCPU are a lot more useful than showing the number of
> >>threads.  Out of the top 70 processes I'm running right now, only _1_ is
> >>multi-threaded.
> >>
> >>How about backing all this out and making your toggle be between #threads
> >>and something else -- with the something else being the default thing
> >>shown.
> >>
> >>I still don't know what was wrong with the 'H' display of top(1) which
> >>was all about threading.
> >
> >
> >Could you explain what WCPU/CPU are supposed to differentiate?  In years
> >of using FreeBSD I don't think I've seen them ever be different, so I'm
> >always left wondering why there's what appears to be wasted screen
> >real-estate.
> >
> 
> man top
> 
> [...]
> WCPU, when displayed, is the weighted cpu percentage (this is the  same
> value that ps(1) displays as CPU), CPU is the raw percentage and is the
> field that is sorted to determine the order of the processes
> [...]
> 
> I'm not sure which FreeBSD you've been using for years, but the numbers 
> are almost never the same for all of the machines that I have.

I don't know what machines you're using, but on almost all the FreeBSD
machines I use, most of the tasks are idle, and thus CPU and WCPU will
be the same (0.00, 0.00).  As for running tasks, yes, Brian must be
thinking of something else.  That said, the numbers are almost always
the same, at least given my sample set.

juli.
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