High system CPU% in dual CPU System

From: Ingo Ciechowski (ciechowski@cis-computer.com)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 17:35:13 EST


I'm experiencing very high system CPU% indications on my new dual
Pentium III machine (SuSE Linux 7.1, Kernel 2.4.4-SMP):

  12:26am up 1 day, 8:34, 9 users, load average: 1.44, 2.74, 3.26
116 processes: 113 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 19.2% user, 32.0% system, 0.0% nice, 48.2% idle
CPU1 states: 20.4% user, 40.1% system, 0.0% nice, 38.3% idle
Mem: 512180K av, 498144K used, 14036K free, 0K shrd, 145360K buff
Swap: 1024120K av, 8504K used, 1015616K free 39976K cache

   PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
20308 root 9 0 21056 20M 1744 S 2.7 4.1 6:14 X
30471 capicall 12 0 1020 1020 772 R 0.7 0.1 0:36 top
   594 root 9 0 628 628 480 S 0.5 0.1 6:59 nscd
22072 ingo 17 0 1484 1484 576 R 0.5 0.2 0:00 ps
   596 root 9 0 628 628 480 S 0.3 0.1 6:36 nscd
22467 ingo 9 0 3940 3940 2812 R 0.3 0.7 11:03 gkrellm
22978 ingo 9 0 1380 1380 1132 S 0.3 0.2 0:04 ssh
   597 root 9 0 628 628 480 S 0.1 0.1 6:31 nscd
   598 root 9 0 628 628 480 S 0.1 0.1 6:35 nscd
22071 ingo 17 0 1036 1036 852 S 0.1 0.2 0:00 sh
...

After the initial Installation everything was fine - it must be
caused by some additonal package, but I have no clue.

What can I do to find out what the CPUs are doing during "system" time?

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Ingo ciechowski@cis-computer.com

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