Re: 2.1.131: Strange percent idle time measurement
Barrett G. Lyon (blyon@netpr.com)
Tue, 08 Dec 1998 02:31:46 -0600
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|>> > 2. The idle time shows some interesting jumps.
|>> > I'd expect 0% all the time. Is this top's calculations again?
|>>
|>> It can be exited proces. If proces exits before top can see it, its
|>> time will be reported as idle. This can be easily seen while compiling
|>> with kernel (top reports up-to 50% free cupu when in fact there's no
|>> free cpu...).
|>
|>Using top and vmstat together on different terminals
|>will show this effect beautifully :)
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Yup, I noticed the problem with top also. vmstat shows x us x sy x id
while top shows a compleatly different output. Top seems to run like a dog
under 2.1.131.
-Barrett
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