Top output isn't quite right

[Andreas Rudisch]

On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 13:54 -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> 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

User and System use about 97% of CPU load together, I do not see a
problem, everything seems to be as it should.

Andreas

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