[aklug] Re: Digital Overload

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Richard Moore wrote:

> Hey Damian
> I was just checking I was reading through your site and noticed the section
> on top only showing one core
> I was just making sure you were running top ad root, because I know with our
> etch servers here that I manage
> if top is not ran as root it only shows one core, but when you run it as
> root it shows all 4 cores.
> Richard

The man pages are your friends, guys (from top(1)):

    3b. SUMMARY Area Commands

<snip>

          '1' :Toggle_Single/Separate_Cpu_States -- On/Off
               This command affects how the 't' command's Cpu States por-
               tion is shown. Although this toggle exists primarily to
               serve massively-parallel SMP machines, it is not restricted
               to solely SMP environments.

               When you see 'Cpu(s):' in the summary area, the '1' toggle
               is On and all cpu information is gathered in a single line.
               Otherwise, each cpu is displayed separately as: 'Cpu0,
               Cpu1, ...'

If you can't override it as a user check /etc/toprc.

Damien: elite.linuxninjas.tv, eh? "Elite users of the CLI." Very bold.

If you want a different WM, like Compiz just put the command that
starts it in your ~/.xession:

   exec vtwm

No ampersand. Once the last command in the file exits, your X session exits.

A zombie is simply a child process that has exited, but the parent has yet
to reap the return code from the process table. The only way to get rid of
those is to recycle the parent process (assuming the parent was poorly coded
enough to never do its job). You can get the parent PID as field three of
'ps -aef'.

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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Received on Fri Oct 10 08:36:26 2008