Subject: Re: top?
To: None <bertram@gummo.bbb.sub.org>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/28/1996 14:53:43
> 
> > > Has anyone ported top to run on the vax port?  It compiles okay (with
> > > the usual annoyances involving sys_errlist[]), but gets a floating point
> > > exception.  I suspect it's something fairly simple, but didn't want to
> > > go debugging if someone has already fixed it.
> > > 
> > If you have an old libm, there may be a bug in scalb() causing troubles.
> > Be sure that you have at least the libm that were in 1.1 Release.
> 
> Apropos top: top shows the cpu states in percentage for user/system/interrupt
> and idle. I've never seen anything else but 0.0% idle on my vax. Is this
> specific to the vax-architecture or are there other reasons for that?
> vmstat and ps (sum of %CPU for all processes is 100) show a similiar behaviour.
> 
This is vax specific. All cputime counting isn't correct yet.

-- Ragge