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Re: Glance vs ps

 
Dennis Handly
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‎10-20-2008 10:54 PM

‎10-20-2008 10:54 PM

Re: Glance vs ps

>It is odd that "top" reports 87.0% IDLE while the top five processes are using: 42.52%

I wasn't aware that top was that bad.

>And "ps" reports the name of the second highest CPU user as "".

ps(1) is broken. zombie process take no CPU time. (Unless it just died and ps(1) is still averaging it.)
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