Re: xosview reports 200% CPU usage

From: Neal H Walfield (neal@walfield.org)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 11:04:50 EST


Hi,

I am experiencing the large idle time on both my 2.2.12 and 2.2.14 boxes,
but not the double nice time.

-Neal

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 02:51:01PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Jan-Frode Myklebust writes:
> > hmm, I think I see some simillar problem with uniprocessor AMD K6-2 333Mhz
> > and kernel 2.3.40, but I'm not sure if it's a kernel problem or procps.
> >
> > I have a niced process taking 100% cpu, and 'top' reports the cpu as 195.6%
> > nice and 840402.4% idle. If I suspend the niced process, the values goes
> > sane again.
>
> > 10:28pm up 11 days, 9:52, 11 users, load average: 1.02, 1.11, 1.06
> > 124 processes: 108 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 14 stopped
> > CPU states: 3.5% user, 0.7% system, 195.6% nice, 840402.4% idle
> > Mem: 126692K av, 121468K used, 5224K free, 0K shrd, 2524K buff
> > Swap: 512056K av, 27056K used, 485000K free 45764K cached
> >
> > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> > 14502 janfrode 20 19 5004 3368 708 R N 0 99.9 2.6 13487m java
>
> I have noticed this problem with top and the idle as well - I have kernel
> 2.3.34, and the idle value alternates between 0 and some high number. The
> idle value is correct when I stop the processes.
>
> 2:44pm up 30 min, 7 users, load average: 2.25, 2.22, 1.86
> 67 processes: 64 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 8.0% user, 1.8% system, 90.3% nice, 415373.8% idle
> Mem: 128280K av, 85756K used, 42524K free, 48208K shrd, 4348K buff
> Swap: 123944K av, 0K used, 123944K free 58312K cached
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 265 adilger 20 19 744 744 616 R N 0 91.5 0.5 26:53 dnetc
> 264 adilger 19 19 744 744 616 R N 0 89.2 0.5 26:59 dnetc
> 340 adilger 0 0 1416 1416 1124 S 0 13.9 1.1 3:58 mpg123
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
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> \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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