On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 17:36, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > But what's accounting for the 32.1%? I have about 30% usage all the time > too and the top couple entries add up to less than 5 percent followed by a > bunch of processes with a cpu usage of 0%. So what's using 25% of my cpu > when I'm not doing anything? It looks like top on your machine is sorting by Memory Usage and not CPU usage so use "top -i" to run it in interactive mode then type "o" while it is running to change the order in which it displays usage. It will give you a prompt "Order to sort:" simply type "cpu" and this should sort it properly for you Ken -- Occasional Helper Monkey Proud Debian Admin and FreeBSD user. Will work for Hardware, Pies or Bandwidth
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