Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 23 June 2006 03:21, 张韡武 wrote:
> Sorry for last empty mail went out by accident.
>
> Today someone rebooted the X terminal server in the morning, now it is
> in the afternoon, for the whole day 2 users are working on it, doing
> exactly the same thing they did yesterday, the load average is....
> surprising, 0.33
>
> Basically, the system looks exactly the same, feels as fast as yeserday,
> only figures are treating me. Yeserday load average is 8, today is 0.33,
> everything was almost the same except the figures.

Hi Zhang Weiwu,

I run 'top' under three circumstances:

a) when a system becomes less responsive and I want to know why?

b) when I've launched an installer (usually) or a program that appears to be 
taking a very long time to load and I eventually decide to confirm it is 
actually running :-)

c) when I want a quick 'snapshot' of active processes (faster and uses less 
resources IMHO than the GUI 'System Guard')

Other than circumstances like the above, my impression is that the numbers 
'top' displays might be more meaningful once they've been collected and 
averaged over a period of time and graphed (like 'System Guard'.)

hth & regards,

Carl

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