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[wezhira]

i been running top but i cant for the life of me figure it out

top - 21:53:26 up 31 min, 3 users, load average: 2.74, 1.72, 1.12
Tasks: 145 total, 2 running, 143 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 31.2%us, 1.7%sy, 1.3%ni, 64.8%id, 0.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1033876k total, 1018484k used, 15392k free, 74772k buffers
Swap: 2980016k total, 364k used, 2979652k free, 427196k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
9723 root 20 0 211m 170m 62m S 20.6 16.9 4:02.62 Xgl
9989 scrarfus 20 0 181m 55m 22m S 5.3 5.5 0:31.27 dragon
10354 scrarfus 20 0 258m 131m 17m S 2.7 13.0 0:33.69 opera
10413 scrarfus 39 19 94416 14m 9352 S 2.7 1.4 0:09.12 operapluginwrap
9905 scrarfus 20 0 34864 25m 6956 S 0.7 2.5 0:09.80 compiz
1 root 20 0 772 320 276 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.76 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd

i took this when i was using xfce now the part where it says users in kde 3.5 i get up too 5 users since its only me whose usin this system ( where does the 5 users come from then there is the cpu all those separate percentages how does one tell where the problem is the rest i can make out any help would be appreciated by the way its opensuse 11

 

[adrianx]

Hi

To find out who is logged in, use the 'who' command. It is possible that you were logged in more than once. E.g., each time you open a new tab in your terminal, you create a new login.

This is from 'man top':

The summary area fields describing CPU statistics are abbreviated. They provide information about times spent in:
us = user mode
sy = system mode
ni = low priority user mode (nice)
id = idle task
wa = I/O waiting
hi = servicing IRQs
si = servicing soft IRQs
st = steal (time given to other DomU instances)

Not very helpful, I know... but at least it's a start.

 

[MyWorld]

A program that calls a lib, function or process executed by you will show up with your username.

I think what you are revering to is something like this?

top - 21:53:26 up 31 min, 3 users, load average: 2.74, 1.72, 1.12

For each session you have open as a user it counts as an extra user, also there are some "users" in the background like:
avahi
haldaemon, etc.

Use htop rather, much more understandable.

What you need to look out for is zombie and runnaway (using 99% CPU ,etc.) processes, they are the ones that you need to catch and kill.