Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Dec 1998 02:31:46 -0600 | From | "Barrett G. Lyon" <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.131: Strange percent idle time measurement |
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/ |>> > 2. The idle time shows some interesting jumps. |>> > I'd expect 0% all the time. Is this top's calculations again? |>> |>> It can be exited proces. If proces exits before top can see it, its |>> time will be reported as idle. This can be easily seen while compiling |>> with kernel (top reports up-to 50% free cupu when in fact there's no |>> free cpu...). |> |>Using top and vmstat together on different terminals |>will show this effect beautifully :) \________
Yup, I noticed the problem with top also. vmstat shows x us x sy x id while top shows a compleatly different output. Top seems to run like a dog under 2.1.131.
-Barrett
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