[rhelv6-list] Top Does not show all CPU cores

[Tilsley, Jerry M.]

>>On 6 August 2012 22:28, Tilsley, Jerry M. <jmtilsley at st-claire.org<mailto:jmtilsley at st-claire.org>> wrote:
>>First of all, I wasn't paying attention when I sent this 5.7 issue to the RHEL6 group, sorry about that!  Secondly, I found the issue.  I also didn't realize I was running as a basic user when trying to do top.  When I switched to user 'root' top worked as >>expected!


>There's something else going on there.   It doesn't matter whether you're on EL5 or EL6, "1" in top should show the per-cpu stats like this:

 >top - 08:42:00 up 4 days, 20:51,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
>Tasks: 118 total,   1 running, 117 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>Cpu0  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
>Cpu1  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
>Cpu2  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
>Cpu3  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
>Mem:   1880072k total,  1159908k used,   720164k free,   195840k buffers
>Swap:  1048572k total,        0k used,  1048572k free,   606672k cached

>It's not even as though the per-cpu information comes from a different place: top gets both summary and the per-cpu data from /proc/stat.   Even if you only have one CPU you'd still see a "Cpu0" line instead of "Cpu(s).

>The only way I can see to prevent top from displaying per-cpu information is to prevent it displaying any cpu information at all: try hitting "t" -- that will take away the Tasks and Cpu lines.

>It's possible that the Task area (t flag) is off by default: it can be set in either ~/.toprc or /etc/toprc.   If it's not and you still don't have per-cpu data then something is seriously amiss.   Check /proc/stat to make sure you do have per-cpu lines, check "rpm ->qf $(type -p top)" to make sure the top you're running really is the one in the procps rpm and "rpm -V procps" to make sure procps isn't damaged.
I have narrowed down the issue to only a particular user, the rest function as expected.  I cannot find a file called toprc anyway, not in any users home and not in /etc either.  Not sure what I am missing there.  All other checks came back good, the I get the information as long as I'm not running as one particular user.

And then check for rootkits :)

jch

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