> I was running top, and I noticed a very odd idle% pop up from time to time:
>
> 11:03am up 11:04, 1 user, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.00
> 36 processes: 32 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.1% system, 99.4% nice, 428639.3% idle
> ^^^^^^^^^
> I'm running the rc5des client on both cpu's of my dual PII running 2.2.7.
> Nothing bad has happened, but I'm curious as to whether this might be an
> overflow in whatever file in /proc top get's its info from...
Fix top. Top really lies about % idle: it computes it as 100-(%'s of
processes it sees). That's WRONG. % idle should be get from % of idle
process. Then, 100-(sum) could be reported as % unknown. Yes, %unknown
happen: if gcc exits just before top runs, you have %'s for
non-existent process and top does not see that %'s. It currently adds
it to %idle which is wrong.
Pavel
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