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ssapkota
Asked: 2011-06-22 14:49:44 +0800 CST

What does the suffix 'w' and 'd' mean with 'TIME+' in top?

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Here's a chunk of the top from my server:

PID    USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM      TIME+  COMMAND    
18878  www-data  20   0  200m  13m 4704 S    0  0.2    0:00.07  apache2 
12374  root      20   0  197m 9460 4480 S    0  0.1  21212906w  apache2 
9136   root      20   0 79100 3488 2716 S    0  0.0  54518724d  sshd

I know the TIME+ means the total CPU time the task has used since it started. But in the above output, I simply couldn't understand what 21212906w and 54518724d mean? some considerable no of processes are showing the TIME+ with w and d prefixed.
What does this mean? Is the server in trouble?

Just to let you know - the server uptime is 4days.

EDIT:
- I can guess these refer week and days. If so why is it so large considering the uptime?
- The server has 8 cores.

linux top uptime

1 Answers

  1. weeks and days

    And it looks to me like there's a bug in your version of top, or the kernel, or something... that it's showing bogus numbers there.

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