determine source of system time

From: <Ambrose_Earle_at_shamrockfoods.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 05:52:05 -0700

Are there any tips or tricks for determining the source of high system CPU
time?

I had an ES40/5.1/PK5/4x833/4 GB running with over 50% system time and
nearly 0% user time. We were forced to schedule a reboot and even though
we stopped or killed almost every process on the system we never found the
culprit although since the reboot everything has been normal. The only
thing out of the ordinary on the system were about a dozen defunct
processes. Could those have chewed up all that processing power?
Received on Sat Jan 18 2003 - 12:53:00 NZDT

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