Re: 119.5% CPU load

From: Ken Brownfield (brownfld@irridia.com)
Date: Sat Dec 08 2001 - 10:40:37 EST


Heh, that's nothing. I see this all the time (I just chose a random
machine and voila):

  7:35am up 172 days, 7:29, 1 user, load average: 8.76, 9.69, 10.87
126 processes: 117 sleeping, 9 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 38.9% user, 18.9% system, 42.1% nice, 421902.3% idle
Mem: 517192K av, 514040K used, 3152K free, 78564K shrd, 84884K buff
Swap: 1025016K av, 4380K used, 1020636K free 255572K cached

I've always assumed it's a 'top' precision issue, but I think I've only
seen this on 2.2 now that I think about it.

-- 
Ken.
brownfld@irridia.com

On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 04:43:30PM +0100, brain@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz wrote: | Hello. | | Look at this "top" snapshot: | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | 2:30pm up 3:46, 10 users, load average: 2.96, 1.50, 0.84 | 49 processes: 44 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 1 stopped | CPU states: 0.1% user, 119.4% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle | Mem: 63208K av, 62004K used, 1204K free, 24556K shrd, 34892K buff | Swap: 34236K av, 140K used, 34096K free 7056K cached | | PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND | 1632 brain 20 0 1724 1724 992 R 0 33.4 2.7 1:19 mc | 1654 brain 20 0 784 784 576 R 0 32.2 1.2 0:49 mpg123 | 1652 root 14 0 500 500 368 R 0 21.4 0.7 0:40 top | 84 root 0 0 244 224 192 S 0 15.7 0.3 0:03 gpm | 1655 root 20 0 624 624 476 R 0 10.6 0.9 0:02 vi | 3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 5.0 0.0 0:18 kupdate | 121 root 2 0 844 844 588 S 0 0.6 1.3 0:00 bash | 4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.2 0.0 0:08 kswapd | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | That's not a joke, it WAS on my machine on very busy network. I've got 2.2.19 | kernel and single AMD K6-2/400. I don't have any turbocharger, so I suppose my | CPU is able to perform mere 100% of the load. Can you explain it? | | Thanx | | Brain | | -------------------------------- | Petr `Brain' Kulhavy | <brain@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> | http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~brain | Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic | | --- | Promising costs nothing, it's the delivering that kills you. | | | | - | To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in | the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org | More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html | Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



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