[hobbit] Some Infos for the CPU-Column

Ryan Novosielski novosirj at umdnj.edu
Mon Mar 29 19:24:45 CEST 2010


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Andreas Kunberger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just had server under heavy load and while looking for the cause I
> noticed something weird:
> If you normal use top, it shows in the third line the actual cpu usage
> percentage.
> Not so in the top output in the cpu column: here it shows the avverage
> cpu usage since reboot.
> Top behaves in this line similar to vmstat.
> 
> So if you need the load percentage look in the trends column or in the
> client data.

I suspect this is configured in the command line arguments that are set
in the client for the use of "top" here. In BB, the environment variable
I believe was TOPARGS, but it's probably something similar.

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