On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 11:01:30PM -0600, Wayne Dyer wrote:
> Hal Burgiss wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:58:21PM -0600, Wayne Dyer wrote:
> > > Trevor Astrope wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > We are running an rh6.0 based system with kernel 2.2.13 and
> > > > after the system has been up for a day or so, the cpu states
> > > > displayed by top no longer add up. Does anyone know what could
> > > > be causing this?
> [...]
> > > They may not add up. I have the Distributed.net client running,
> > > and when I start top it initially reports:
> > >
> > > 9:56pm up 1 day, 21 min, 3 users, load average: 1.01, 1.12, 1.09
> > > 95 processes: 93 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> > > CPU states: 0.7% user, 0.2% system, 0.9% nice, 0.0% idle
> > >
> > > After running for a few seconds, it reports:
> > >
> > > 9:57pm up 1 day, 22 min, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 1.10, 1.09
> > > 95 processes: 93 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> > > CPU states: 0.5% user, 0.9% system, 98.4% nice, 0.0% idle
> > >
> > > That approximates to 100%.
> >
> > Yea, and why is his so apparently skewed?
>
> My point was that if he's looking at it right after he fires up
> `top`, it may add up to anything near 100%. If a long update
> interval is used, this situation might appear to persist.
I believe he is saying it looks normal, and then goes south after a
day or so.
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