top CPU states

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 07:13:26PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
 >     One thing I noticed on a dual Xeon running Fedora Core 2 compared
 > to a dual Xeon running RH 3WS is the difference in the output of "top".
 > Under the Linux 2.4 kernel of RH 3WS I see the individual cpu states
 > shown as ...
 > 
 > CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
 >            total    0.0%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%   99.9%
 >            cpu00    0.0%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%  100.0%
 >            cpu01    0.0%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%  100.0%
 >            cpu02    0.0%    0.0%    0.2%   0.2%     0.0%    0.0%   99.6%
 >            cpu03    0.0%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%  100.0%
 > 
 > whereas under FC2's Linux 2.6 I only see...
 > 
 > Cpu(s):  0.2% us,  0.4% sy,  4.1% ni, 95.3% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
 > 
 > Just curious why the output has changed from "top".

There are (or at least were) two competing upstream procps packages.
For Fedora Core 2, we switched to the one that was more actively maintained.

		Dave