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| 117732 | 2003-02-02 04:11:00 | When I run top on a linux box, it says this: 5:09pm up 2 days, 1:21, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.30, 0.28 133 processes: 130 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.5% user, 5.9% system, 0.0% nice, 93.4% idle Mem: 772704K av, 723996K used, 48708K free, 0K shrd, 112128K buff Swap: 1535976K av, 0K used, 1535976K free 510484K cached can anybody explain what it all means? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 117733 | 2003-02-02 04:53:00 | The top man page ("man top") has a fairly good description under "FIELD DESCRIPTIONS". The first line is the uptime and the second is processes. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 117734 | 2003-02-02 09:18:00 | > can anybody explain what it all means? I find it fairly self-explanatory. What don't you understand about it? |
segfault (655) | ||
| 117735 | 2003-02-02 09:46:00 | Well this is from what I can pick up from it*. *I'm no big linux phr33k. > When I run top on a linux box, it says this: > > 5:09pm up 2 days, 1:21, 1 user, Uptime, it has been up for 2days and 1hr 21m, with 1 user that time. > load average: 0.27, 0.30, 0.28 ummmmm > 133 processes: 130 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped rather explanatry i think. 133 started, 130 sleeping, 3 running > CPU states: 0.5% user, 5.9% system, 0.0% nice, 93.4% idle 5.9% CPU utilisation, > Mem: 772704K av, 723996K used, 48708K free, 0K shrd, 112128K buff 77meg average memory usage. > Swap: 1535976K av, 0K used, 1535976K free swap file stats. zero used. > 510484K cached > > can anybody explain what it all means? |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 117736 | 2003-02-02 12:13:00 | Load average is the average number of processes waiting for the processor over the last 1 minute, 15 minutes, and an hour (IIRC). Its used as measure of how busy a system is. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 117737 | 2003-02-02 18:11:00 | What about this, this is what I dont get: > 133 processes: 130 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped My computer is a Zombie??? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 117738 | 2003-02-02 21:38:00 | ummm at a guess that will be 133 processes have been initialised . 3 are running (active, working) 130 are in an idle state 0 have been stopped 0 have been a sleep for a very long time, or maybe they're asleep because something else went a sleep . |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 117739 | 2003-02-02 22:14:00 | > 0 have been a sleep for a very long time, or maybe > they're asleep because something else went a sleep. I didnt get much sleep last night.. I feel like one of those system processes wanting sleep ;-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 117740 | 2003-02-03 00:07:00 | A zombie is a process that has finished running but is still waiting for its parent process to exit it properly. They usually appear if there is a bug in the parent programme causing it to lose track of its children. | bmason (508) | ||
| 117741 | 2003-02-03 07:09:00 | > A zombie is a process that has finished running but is still waiting for its parent process to exit it properly. They usually appear if there is a bug in the parent programme causing it to lose track of its children. Who dreamed up all this terminology, geeky children or geeky parents? The mind boggles! :D |
Susan B (19) | ||
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