Top output isn't quite right

Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD at keyslapper.net
Sat Jul 16 17:55:01 GMT 2005


I'm confused about the output from top in 5.4-RELEASE-p4.  The gkrellm
CPU monitor is telling me I'm running at 95% load while updating the
portsdb, but top tells me everything is taking 0.0% of the CPU.

It may have something to do with the CPU HT being enabled, but I don't
know.  The system has one physical CPU, but with HT, some processes
run on CPU 0 while others run on CPU 1.

Any idea how to get top to get the actual (or virtual) CPU loads?

Here is the output I'm seeing:

last pid: 82084;  load averages:  2.10,  1.88,  1.17 up 9+17:06:23  13:47:44
131 processes: 3 running, 128 sleeping
CPU states: 73.3% user,  0.0% nice, 23.5% system,  0.0% interrupt, 3.1% idle
Mem: 296M Active, 477M Inact, 148M Wired, 27M Cache, 111M Buf, 44M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 70M Used, 1978M Free, 3% Inuse

  PID USERNAME  PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
81981 root        8    0  1524K  1368K wait   1   0:00  3.00%  0.15% make
 1024 root       96    0   181M   167M select 0  86:36  0.10%  0.10% Xorg
81993 root        8    0   816K   652K wait   0   0:00  1.00%  0.05% make
 1067 userid     20    0 15016K  8040K kserel 0 241:36  0.00%  0.00% gkrellm
  628 www        20    0   233M 11852K kserel 0  12:00  0.00%  0.00% java
  250 root       96    0  3428K  1208K select 0   6:29  0.00%  0.00% ppp
  804 mysql      20    0 56568K  1728K kserel 0   3:43  0.00%  0.00% mysqld
  401 _pflogd   -58    0  1592K   580K bpf    0   1:42  0.00%  0.00% pflogd
76688 bind       20    0  7004K  3648K kserel 0   1:10  0.00%  0.00% named
12360 root        4    0 36548K 34824K accept 1   0:55  0.00%  0.00% perl
12358 root        4    0 37232K 35204K accept 1   0:55  0.00%  0.00% perl
12361 root        4    0 43136K 40080K accept 1   0:54  0.00%  0.00% perl
41249 userid     96    0  3452K  1648K select 0   0:37  0.00%  0.00% xscreensaver
 1050 userid     96    0  3384K  1740K select 0   0:34  0.00%  0.00% fvwm2
  893 root       96    0  5448K   640K select 0   0:29  0.00%  0.00% nmbd
14699 root        4    0  3628K   392K select 0   0:23  0.00%  0.00% master
  651 root       96    0 21852K  2192K select 0   0:20  0.00%  0.00% httpd
  310 root       96    0  1360K   280K select 0   0:17  0.00%  0.00% syslogd
64422 root       96    0  2436K  1544K select 0   0:13  0.00%  0.00% fam
  339 root       96    0  1508K   584K select 0   0:12  0.00%  0.00% rpcbind

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