Top doesn't display properly

jludwig wralphie at comcast.net
Thu Aug 12 15:10:57 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 21:01, Bradley Tate wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For some reason 'top' isn't displaying a particular application 
> correctly. The box is adual Opteron 64 bit server running an up-to-date 
> FC2.
> 
> On the normal Processor display under top Firebird 1.5 (32 bit database) 
> doesn't show up at all. If I shift-M to display memory a single entry 
> appears at the top of the list. I can see it with 'ps', and even while 
> CPU activity is at 98% and I know it's Firebird doing it there is 
> nothing on the top screen to indicate it exists.
> 
> It shows up fine on another similar box running Suse 9.1, i.e. 2.6 
> kernel. FWIW I pulled top down to the FC2 box from Suse and it made no 
> difference.
> 
> Has anybody got any good ideas how I can approach/fix this?? I'd install 
> Suse but it hates something about the SATA configuration on my hardware 
> and won't install cleanly.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bradley.
>From the top man page;
"It can sort the tasks by CPU usage, memory usage and runtime."
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"Most features can either be selected by an interactive command or by
specifying the  feature  in  the  personal  or system-wide configuration
file."

It appears to me that the sorting option is different for Suse.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>





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