[SunHELP] Sun Blade cpu utilization 100% all the time

[Nicholas Dronen]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:29:00PM -0700, Greg wrote:
> On 10/03/01 11:01 PM, Steve Wingate wrote:
> 
> > The logical thing to do would be to install top and/or look at what's
> > running to determine what's using up the cpu cycles. With the miniscule
> > bit of information you've given us, the cause could be acid rain or
> > Mercury being in retrograde.
> 
> 
> Or if you don't feel like installing top then run prstat which comes 
> with the system.  It will show you the the processes sorted by cpu time 
> so the ones you want to examine are the ones at the top of the list.
> 
> Useful tip: prstat -t can be useful on systems shared by more than one 
> user, it shows the number of processes, process size/rss, % of memory, % 
> of cpu, total cpu time for each user.

Or just use ps:

$ alias chogs     
chogs='ps -ef | head -1; ps -ef | grep -v UID | sort +3 -nr | head -15'