8.0RC2 "top" statistics seem broken

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 04:29:37PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Here is what I'm seeing now:
> 
> 
> last pid: 70893;  load averages:  1.70,  1.10,  0.58
> up 27+02:59:26  16:23:59
> 134 processes: 3 running, 131 sleeping
> CPU: 94.8% user,  0.0% nice,  4.6% system,  0.6% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> Mem: 309M Active, 48M Inact, 113M Wired, 17M Cache, 60M Buf, 3624K Free
> Swap: 640M Total, 205M Used, 435M Free, 32% Inuse
> 
>   PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>   751 pgsql       1  45    0   159M   556K select 1 249:38  0.00% postgres
>   756 pgsql       1  44    0 25004K   600K select 1  86:31  0.00% postgres
>   754 pgsql       1  44    0   159M  1040K select 1  13:02  0.00% postgres
>   753 pgsql       1  44    0   159M  7868K select 1  10:55  0.00% postgres
>   597 root        1  44    0  3184K   464K select 0   4:49  0.00% syslogd
>   755 pgsql       1  44    0   159M  1432K select 1   4:46  0.00% postgres
>   659 root        1  44    0 62156K  1356K select 1   4:30  0.00% vmware-guestd
>   765 nobody      1   4    0  3236K   192K kqread 1   3:25  0.00% memcached
>   775 root        1  44    0  9996K   340K select 1   2:18  0.00% httpd
>   900 sveb        1   5    0  9452K     0K select 0   1:49  0.00% <sshd>
>   790 www         1  44    0  9768K   224K select 1   1:47  0.00% httpd
> 70851 ivoras      3  96    0   199M   195M CPU0   0   1:47  0.00% 7z
> 
> 
> Load average and %CPU user are right, as are other global
> statistics. The load is produced by the "7z" process
> (archivers/p7zip) which compresses some data in two threads but is
> credited with 0% CPU, though its runtime is correct (increments
> every second as it should in a CPU-bound process). It doesn't help
> if I expand / show individual threads.

Does the behaviour change if you use "top -C" or "top -P" (doubting
the latter)?

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