Quote Originally Posted by PoppaGeek View Post
sorry OC I changed my post above. The more I got to thinking about it all I thought I did not really understand things as well as I thought. Still not sure. Why are all processes showing %id when they show no reason for it. no IO wait states, no system or %sy, except for CEP2. I used to have to deal with this stuff on very busy database servers with hundreds of users. Not sure it this is all different, Linux is that different than Solaris in how it reports these things, I am old and with foggy brain and beginnings of dementia. Maybe some of all three.

Will be interesting to see what we learn.
I'd have to look it up but all the reporting stuff in Solaris is available in the Linux version of top, you just need to use the right flags ... which I don't remember. I'm sure you can configure top's default to show whatever you want, but again I don't remember the syntax etc. man top is your friend.