A better example would be to do an interactive top (just run top) in one window, and then do a top n 1 in another. (top n 1 means to just do 1 iteration and exit) For some reason the CPU states do not match. (top n 1 never gets updated) Does anyone else have this problem? Paul Rech [rechpj at earthlink.net] wrote: > Do you mean the line with 92.1% idle? > > If it's like vmstat, the first line is cumulative since startup. > > Paul Rech > > > Clay Fandre wrote: > > > Can someone explain why the first line is always the same? > > > > ac:/# top q b n 2 | grep "CPU st" > > CPU states: 6.1% user, 1.7% system, 0.1% nice, 92.1% idle > > CPU states: 53.3% user, 46.7% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle > > ac:/# top q b n 2 | grep "CPU st" > > CPU states: 6.1% user, 1.7% system, 0.1% nice, 92.1% idle > > CPU states: 33.3% user, 66.7% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle > > ac:/# top q b n 2 | grep "CPU st" > > CPU states: 6.1% user, 1.7% system, 0.1% nice, 92.1% idle > > CPU states: 53.8% user, 46.2% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle > > ac:/# top q b n 2 | grep "CPU st" > > CPU states: 6.1% user, 1.7% system, 0.1% nice, 92.1% idle > > CPU states: 50.0% user, 50.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle > > ac:/# top q b n 2 | grep "CPU st" > > CPU states: 6.1% user, 1.7% system, 0.1% nice, 92.1% idle > > CPU states: 75.0% user, 25.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle > > ac:/# > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010825/7172334f/attachment.pgp