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[scrarfussi]

i been running top but i cant for the life of me figure it out

top - 21:53:26 up 31 min, 3 users, load average: 2.74, 1.72, 1.12
Tasks: 145 total, 2 running, 143 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 31.2%us, 1.7%sy, 1.3%ni, 64.8%id, 0.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1033876k total, 1018484k used, 15392k free, 74772k buffers
Swap: 2980016k total, 364k used, 2979652k free, 427196k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
9723 root 20 0 211m 170m 62m S 20.6 16.9 4:02.62 Xgl
9989 scrarfus 20 0 181m 55m 22m S 5.3 5.5 0:31.27 dragon
10354 scrarfus 20 0 258m 131m 17m S 2.7 13.0 0:33.69 opera
10413 scrarfus 39 19 94416 14m 9352 S 2.7 1.4 0:09.12 operapluginwrap
9905 scrarfus 20 0 34864 25m 6956 S 0.7 2.5 0:09.80 compiz
1 root 20 0 772 320 276 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.76 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd

i took this when i was using xfce now the part where it says users in kde 3.5 i get up too 5 users since its only me whose usin this system ( where does the 5 users come from then there is the cpu all those separate percentages how does one tell where the problem is the rest i can make out any help would be appreciated by the way its opensuse 11

[werner]

A username is listed for every process that you are running. If I had 3 terminals and firefox running as user "werner" top would display 4 werner's. The same applies for root. The cpu percentages are what types of programs are using the cpu. For example, 31.2%us = regular users, 1.7%sy = system processes etc. Take a look at the top man page for more details or the doc for top in /usr/share/doc.

[Dapper Dan]

Top is the default but personally, I prefer Htop. It does the same thing but the interface is a little less complicated and easier to work with. You should be able to install it through the SuSE package manager.

[scrarfussi]

Thanx guy's