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.
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jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
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