Re: Strange behavior of "top"

From: Bernd Walter <ticso_at_cicely12.cicely.de>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:49:22 +0100
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 12:08:10PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since my CPU monitor displayed a unexpected CPU usage I wanted to hunt
> down the problem. But top displays a strange output. It tells me that
> 23% of CPU are used by userland processes. But I only see 1.5% used in
> the process listing. The galeon-bin process shows alot of used CPU time
> (for this small uptime), and I wouldn't be surprised if it is the galeon
> process which is eating the majority of the CPU resources (I have ~85
> tabs open with content), but I object to the 0% CPU display then.
> 
> The galeon process spends alot of time in the kserel state.
> 
> This is -current as of yesterday. Any ideas?

Don't know your case, but this usually happens for me if the processes
taking the CPU time are already gone.
e.g. during GNU configure where lots of short running process are used.
You may keep an eye on last pid value.

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Received on Sat Jan 22 2005 - 10:49:52 UTC

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