Re: [SLE] "top" command consuming lots of CPU...

From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:01:20 +0100 (CET)

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The Friday 2005-12-30 at 11:11 -0400, Martin Cordova wrote:

> What could be the reason for "top" consuming about 80% of CPU time
> whenever it is invoked?
>
> My OS version: Linux version 2.4.21-199-default (root@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
> (gcc version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)) #1 Fri Mar 12 08:27:41 UTC 2004 (SuSE
> 9.0 Pro)

There was a version when top wrongly reported idle time as used cp time by
top. You could have that one.

Or you may have a very slow machine, and top does use that many resources.
Try "uptime", "ps"...

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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson

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