"Adv. Systems Design" wrote:
>
> The problem I am having is that my machine's processor
> is being cycled to death to the point where my telnet
> sessions become dead (top reveals that there is 0%
> idle, but 0.3% being used by system and 0.9% by user
> SO where is the rest of the 99%?! After a few seconds,
> top must background the process, because idle shoots
> up to 98%. Funny thing is, if I keep top running, my
> telnet connection never dies!
>
>
I normally see this when top starts. After the first refresh, the idle
per cent goes back up to 99%. I believe this is top initially seeing
itself running. Only a guess. It has nothing to do with telnet.
Fred
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