Re: Idle time reported by top / 386 compiling kernel

Marijn Meijles (marijn@stack.nl)
Wed, 8 Apr 1998 11:25:42 +0200


You wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Hmm, yes, it looks like I can see it. But it looks like measurement
> > error. TOP uses idle=100%-sum{times of all processes}. Fix top.
>
> [And kernel has its own idle time reporting, it is really neccessary
> to use that.]
>
> Just to show how broken top is, try following program: Top reports 95%
> idle time, while cpu is completely loaded in fact. Fix top.
>
Doesn't this have to do with counting in the time used for HDD transfers?

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