When the Unix load average was added to Unix

Re:When the Unix load average was added to Unix by dmit on Sunday September 06, 2015 @04:22PM (#10178877)

Or as Bryan Cantrill put it:

  When you're in top, what's the top process?
  top!
  "Hey man, good news, I've found the problem!
  I'm the problem!!
  Who would've thought that?!
  Don't run me!"

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Re:When the Unix load average was added to Unix by plorkyeran on Sunday September 06, 2015 @05:17PM (#10179049)

taskman.exe is the one exception to this that I've seen, which I've wondered about ever since I switched over to non-Windows platforms. Is there something about NT that makes performance metrics unusually cheap, or is it just "lying" and not reporting that time anywhere?

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Re:When the Unix load average was added to Unix by jrapdx3 on Sunday September 06, 2015 @06:29PM (#10179327)

That's curious. Running Win8.1 and Task Manager lists Task Manager with subprocess Task Manager, anyway, using variably 0 to ~1.0% CPU, 0.3% memory. How "truthful" these stats are, well I guess that's another question altogether...

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Re:When the Unix load average was added to Unix by jandrese on Sunday September 06, 2015 @09:00PM (#10179696)

Taskman sorts differently. Top sorts by the most recent active process, while taskman sorts by the process that has used the most CPU on average lately.

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Re:When the Unix load average was added to Unix by johnmaguire2013 on Monday September 07, 2015 @04:33AM (#10180565)

You can choose what to sort by in both.

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