[Novalug] CPU SYS% per process?

[Jon LaBadie]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 05:08:53PM -0500, Peter Larsen wrote:
> Sorry if this is a repost, but I never saw it posted on the list
> Thursday.
> 
> I'm on a quest to find out what/where the SYS CPU is consumed. I have a
> few hosts where the CPU% is > 40% almost constantly but so far I've been
> unable to locate where/why the time is consumed that way.
> 
> TOP, PS etc. doesn't seem to differenciate between USER CPU and SYS CPU
> time. Well, as far as I can see that is. Does anyone here have an idea
> of how/where to look?
> 

Does linux still provide a process accounting package as was in UNIX?

If so, after the process is complete, acctcom with the -t option can
show real/sys/user times of each process.

jl
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