Re: Idle time reported by top / 386 compiling kernel

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Wed, 8 Apr 1998 12:07:53 +0200


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?

No, as harddisk does not even move in my test.

Pavel

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