Re: Strange behavior of "top"

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:49:22 +0100
Bernd Walter <ticso_at_cicely12.cicely.de> wrote:

> 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.

Ah, yes, I know about this too (and you may be able to catch the cause
of the load in this case by repeatedly hitting the space key very fast).
Sorry, I forgot to tell that no such action was running in the
background.

Bye,
Alexander.

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