top/ps CPU percentage broken on 7.1-PRERELEASE?

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Fri Oct 3 09:39:39 UTC 2008


On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:03:13AM +0200, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> The CPU % displayed by top/ps for single processes seem to be broken here.
> 
> E.g. for a simple shell loop:
> top starts displaying around 20% for bash. Within some seconds it converges to 
> 0%.
> 
> ps values seem to be consistent with top.
> 
> The value in the time column seems to be correct. On every refresh it 
> increases by 2s.
> 
> last pid: 19353;  load averages:  0.99,  0.90,  0.76  up 0+00:37:29    
> 09:07:00
> 119 processes: 2 running, 114 sleeping, 1 stopped, 2 zombie
> CPU: 98.5% user,  0.0% nice,  1.1% system,  0.4% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> Mem: 376M Active, 407M Inact, 144M Wired, 47M Cache, 110M Buf, 13M Free
> Swap: 1280M Total, 1280M Free
> 
>   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> 19352 stefan        1  99    0  4432K  2080K RUN      0:03 15.48% bash
> 
> All other process are using 0% CPU.
> 
> I did a buildworld/kernel yesterday to be sure everything is in sync. I have  
> CURRENT on a different hard disk. Haven't seen the problem there.
> Are there any relevant fixes that weren't MFCed?
> 
> Does anyone else see this? This is a single CPU i386 machine.

Yes, my Java processes now run at 800% at times on my dual processor
AMD64 system.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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