Top broken in AMD64?

[Sean McNeil]

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 14:52 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Building a kernel and top reports 0.0% idle, yet it doesn't show a single 
> program with ANY utilization under WCPU or CPU most of the time. 
> Ocassionaly it would show up to 20% on WCPU, but for the most part it's 0.

That is because the processes are not lasting long enough to show in
top.  This is perfectly normal behavior and top is not broken.

Cheers,
Sean