Craig Small wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:29:47PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Here's a good explanation about what procps is doing:
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2002/2/18/187
> It's not quite how it does it. procps uses a delta or change in the
> values.

I don't see any delta. ps doesn't wait for multiple values..

> > If I sum all the cpu values and divide by uptime, I get 100, every time.
> But is that the correct value? I'm worried that this masks the actual
> problem.

I don't know how to figure out what the real value is for a given
machine.

> I'll try to work out why all numbers are not added.

Probably has something to do with this code having been written for 2.4
:-)

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