Dear Maintainer, I had time to compile it and did sometesting.
It turns out, that the total value exceeds the 32bit unsigned data size of gulong: $ while true; do grep "^cpu " /proc/stat; sleep 0.5;done|awk '{ used=$2+$3+$4+$7+$8; total=used+$5+$6; printf "used=%ld total=%ld load=%ld\n",used,total,256*(used-prevused)/(total-prevtotal);prevused=used;prevtotal=total}' used=121149519 total=4480532061 load=6 used=121149529 total=4480532362 load=8 used=121149537 total=4480532651 load=7 used=121149547 total=4480532929 load=9 used=121149557 total=4480533268 load=7 used=121149568 total=4480533570 load=9 used=121149577 total=4480533821 load=9 used=121149590 total=4480534188 load=9 cu, Stefan -- Stefan Erben | "A paperless office has about as much | Pyramid Design Aachen, Germany | chance as a paperless bathroom." (??) | ------------------ ste...@erben.com | -> PGP-key available <- | Software Development -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org