top problems

[Michael K. Johnson]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 06:22:59PM +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> The lines displaying CPU usage are totally off. Either they're all at
> 0%, or irq, softirq and iowait are sharing everything among themselves,
> like this:
> 
> CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
>            total    0,0%    0,0%    0,0%  33,3%    33,4%   33,1%    0,0%
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this ? Is this a known bug in top ? The only thing
> similar on the three machines is that I'm running stuff niced as well,
> but it shouldn't matter...

I'm seeing it too, on both smp and uniprocessor systems.  I didn't notice
it until you asked.  If it's not already in bugzilla, please to file a bug
report there...

michaelkjohnson

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