Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.7-11 Severity: normal
The 'top -i' should only display non-idle programs running. This however fails if you have CPU-intensive program with multiple threads. For example, running pbzip2 on 8-processor system will usually create 8 threads, most of them doing CPU intensive work. If top is run without '-i', it will display "pbzip2" process as using for example 450% CPU. If it is run WITH '-i' however, it will not show pbzip2 process at all, which is an error (it is in fact MOST cpu-intensive process on the system, and not he idle one). Also, if you run top both with '-i' and with '-H', it will correctly show several pbzip2 threads running with 80%+ CPU usage each. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages procps depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages procps recommends: ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy procps suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
