Process-TOP

[Ralph Angenendt]

Corné Beerse wrote:
> edwarner99 at yahoo.com wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I searched the archives for this problem, didn't find
> >an answer.
> >When running top-i, most of the time the user and
> >system time is zero (0) along with the idle time.
> >Is this a bug?
> 
> No, it's lack of work.

No, it's a bug:

|  14:20:38  up  2:18,  2 users,  load average: 2.96, 1.34, 0.52
| 56 processes: 51 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
| CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait    idle
|            total    0.0%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%    0.4%
|            cpu00    0.0%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.3%    0.3%    0.3%
|            cpu01    0.0%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%    0.0%
|            cpu02    0.0%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.1%    0.1%
|            cpu03    0.0%    0.0%    0.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%    0.1%

This system is running 4 bzip2s on 4 300MB files simultaneously. The
numbers shown by top don't add up to anything remotely usable - take a
look at the load.

And yes, the bug has been filed at redhat:

<http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109484>

Ralph
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