High value in a top

[SecondSight]

Hello !

I made a top and noticed this line (I put the legend above) :

PID - USER - PR - NI - %CPU - [b]TIME+[/b] - %MEM - VIRT - RES - SHR - S - COMMAND

3473 - mysql - 15 - 0 - 7 - [b]358:17.58 [/b]- 10.0 - 1720m - 605m - 3632 - S - mysqld

The other lines are like this :

12174 nobody 15 0 6 0:00.18 0.1 21924 8512 2760 S httpd

12201 nobody 21 0 5 0:00.16 0.2 28140 14m 2692 S httpd

12195 nobody 15 0 5 0:00.15 0.1 21924 8440 2688 S httpd

Is the figure I put in bold normal, in your opinion ?

Thank you ! :)

[bfarber]

Yes, it means MySQL has been running for 358 minutes or 358 hours (can't remember). MySQL runs continuously, while Apache spawns new processes to handle requests as needed. That's normal.

[SecondSight]

Thank you ! :)