got load > 1 but no CPU state is showing?

Stijn Hoop stijn at win.tue.nl
Mon Jun 16 07:11:47 PDT 2003


Hi,

On a lightly loaded server top is misbehaving: it continuously shows all
CPU states at 0.0% yet my load varies from 0.50 to about 3. Is there
any explanation for this?

Obviously, my kernel + world are in sync, running 4.8-RELEASE.
Rebuilding top did no good.

--Stijn

[stijn at sandcat] </usr/src/usr.bin/top> ls -lt `which top` /kernel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2124087 May  5 17:14 /kernel
-r-xr-sr-x  1 root  kmem     32744 May  5 17:11 /usr/bin/top

last pid: 54025;  load averages:  1.43,  1.50,  1.30   up 34+06:36:08  16:06:31
152 processes: 1 running, 151 sleeping
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
Mem: 144M Active, 376M Inact, 189M Wired, 42M Cache, 86M Buf, 1440K Free
Swap: 1536M Total, 91M Used, 1445M Free, 5% Inuse

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
53988 stijn     28   0  2104K  1240K RUN      0:03  0.00%  0.00% top

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