Re: 2.6.11-rc3-bk: something very wrong with top

[Pavel Machek]

On Ne 06-02-05 02:29:06, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > There seem to be some problems with top:
> > 
> >  top - 10:19:24 up 4 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.74, 0.48, 0.21
> >  Tasks:  58 total,   2 running,  56 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> >  Cpu(s): 55.1% us,  6.4% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id, 38.5% wa,  0.0% hi, 0.0% si
> >  Mem:   1031424k total,    72840k used,   958584k free,     8804k buffers
> >  Swap:  1953464k total,     5452k used,  1948012k free,    34860k cached
> > 
> >    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> >    967 root      34  19  2128  620  456 R  0.6  0.1   0:00.35 top
> >      1 root      16   0  1580   80   56 S  0.0  0.0   0:03.27 init
> >      2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
> >      3 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.31 events/0
> >      4 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
> >      9 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread
> >     21 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
> >     97 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 kblockd/0
> >    269 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
> > 
> >  ...while compiling kernel, 50%+ time is spent in gcc, but top does not
> >  show it, or it shows it with something like 3% :-(. Same problem seems
> >  to be in 2.6.10-rc3... Does anybody else see that?
> 
> I can't say that I can see any difference between 2.6.10 and tip-of-tree.
> 
> In fact 2.4 does the same thing: cc1 is either not shown at all or is shown
> as taking just a few percent CPU.  Occasionally it blips up to 50%
> or more.

It happened in 2.6.10, too... Okay, probably I have just too fast
CPU. Sorry for the noise. 

> Presumably cc1 just doesn't run long enough for it to register.  How fast
> is your CPU?

2GHz athlon64...
									Pavel
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