MOL release candidate available

Christian Jaeger mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Mon, 2 Feb 2004 02:13 +0100


Samuel wrote:
> 210 times per second seems a bit on the high side but it might be OK
> (it is related to MacOS the tick frequency). I suspect it is a
> different thread that spends the CPU time. What does top show? One
> can identify the various threads by looking at the 'nice' value in top...

I've put some output at
 http://pflanze.mine.nu/~chris/scratch/Mon_Feb__2_014035_MET_2004

The most interesting part for you is probably:
ps auxw:
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root      5859  0.0  0.2  4856 1336 pts/11   S    01:54   0:00 /usr/loca
root      5900 46.5  9.9 197636 51204 tty8   S    01:54   1:00 /usr/loca
root      5901  0.0  9.9 197636 51204 ?      S    01:54   0:00 /usr/loca
root      5902  0.0  9.9 197636 51204 ?      S<   01:54   0:00 /usr/loca
root      5936  1.2  9.9 197636 51204 ?      S<   01:54   0:01 /usr/loca

BTW note the much higher cpu score in ps output than in top!

I've also noticed that the more other stuff is running on the box, the
higher is the cpu score of mol. CPU cache saturation effects or something
more suspicious?

Christian.