On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, marco wrote:
> Apologies in advance if Red Hat kernels should not be discussed
> here (pointers are appreciated).
> CPU states: 0.1% user, 0.1% system, 99.8% nice, 857278.7% idle
Idle time in the kernel can go backwards (due to a silly calculation)
and this can make the time in top overflow.
I think Red Hat has a patch in their procps rpm to catch this, but
I guess that one only catches negative overflow ;)
regards,
Rik
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