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has caused the Debian Bug report #567509,
regarding [top] 'i'idle command not working for threaded programs
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Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.7-11
Severity: normal
The 'top -i' should only display non-idle programs running. This however
fails if you have CPU-intensive program with multiple threads.
For example, running pbzip2 on 8-processor system will usually create 8
threads, most of them doing CPU intensive work.
If top is run without '-i', it will display "pbzip2" process as using for
example 450% CPU. If it is run WITH '-i' however, it will not show pbzip2
process at all, which is an error (it is in fact MOST cpu-intensive process
on the system, and not he idle one).
Also, if you run top both with '-i' and with '-H', it will correctly show
several pbzip2 threads running with 80%+ CPU usage each.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
procps suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
this report was for a very old top program which has been completely
overhauled.
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