top incorrectly reporting process time

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 27 20:07:48 PST 2008


Ott Köstner wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 04:34:01PM +0200, Ott Köstner wrote:
>>  
>>> On several FreeBSD machines I have the following problem:
>>>     
>>
>> What FreeBSD version?  (It matters)
>>   
> 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
> 
> But I can experience it also on a 7.0 machine. Seems that top reports
> incorrectly processes with multiple threads.
> 
> $ top -bUbind
> last pid: 21635;  load averages:  0.73,  0.46,  0.29  up 1+00:17:18
> 16:48:10
> 54 processes:  1 running, 53 sleeping
> 
> Mem: 66M Active, 1174M Inact, 204M Wired, 36K Cache, 112M Buf, 555M Free
> Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free
> 
>  PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>  979 bind        8  44    0 40288K 32916K select 0   0:16  0.00% named
> 
> $ ps -ax|grep 979
>  979  ??  Ss     1:11.26 /usr/sbin/named -n 5 -t /var/named -u bind

Check top -H to display the statistics for individual threads.

Kris



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