Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: high %CPU values after upgrading to the last stable kernel | Date | Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:55:48 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 22 October 2008 23:40:54 Ray Lee wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2008/10/22 sbs <gexlie@gmail.com>: [snip] > >> should i upgrade procps or downgrade kernel then to get proper values > >> back? :) or is it a feature of the new kernel? > >> > >> thank you > > > > Hi, > > > > It really depends on what your box is doing at the time you capture > > the cpu usage. > > And it really depends too of your kernel config... > > It really shouldn't, we're talking about /proc which is supposed to be > a stable userspace interface. > > Try upgrading your procps, there's a chance it's just so ancient that > it accidentally got broken. However, if that fixes your problem, then > please report back with a subject line of "/proc API breakage" or > somesuch, to get the proper attention to the issue.
This is a known kernel bug that for some reason wasn't fixed before 2.6.27 was released. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11209 for details.
It would probably be useful if the OP added himself to the CC list, so Peter can get some more details about the box.
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