Messages in this thread | | | From | "Alexander E. Patrakov" <> | Subject | Re: top displaying 9999% CPU usage | Date | Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:03:40 +0600 |
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Frans Pop wrote: > I saw top occasionally displaying 9999% CPU usage for a process. The > first few times it was amarokapp, this last time it was kontact. > Both applications were basically idle. > The "cc1" is a kernel compile (rc9 + CFS :-). > > I cannot remember seeing this before, but as I also don't run top that > frequently I cannot be sure its a recent regression.
Try to capture the i/o log with the following command:
strace -o top.log top
This will show for sure whether the kernel gives out incorrect data or top misinterprets them.
-- Alexander E. Patrakov
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