Re: strange idle%

Patrick Jordan-Smith (patrick.jordan-smith@teltrend.co.nz)
Wed, 12 May 1999 08:57:55 +1300 (NZDT)


On 11 May 99, at 11:12, DUST PUPPY wrote:

> 11:03am up 11:04, 1 user, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00
> 36 processes: 32 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.1% system, 99.4% nice, 428639.3% idle
> ^^^^^^^^^
> I'm running the rc5des client on both cpu's of my dual PII running 2.2.7.
> Nothing bad has happened, but I'm curious as to whether this might be an
> overflow in whatever file in /proc top get's its info from...

Have a look in /proc/stat at the top line ('cpu') and see what it says, maybe
it wraps round?

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Patrick Jordan-Smith                                        Teltrend (NZ) Ltd.
patrick.jordan-smith@teltrend.co.nz                 http://www.teltrend.co.nz/

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