Ian Smith wrote:
But since running 5.x (5.5-STABLE since 1st Aug) top can show 0.0% idle but the cpu usages shown don't add up to much of a fraction of 100%.
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Any ideas why top hasn't much of a clue about what's consuming cpu?
Sure, if you're running a parallel make, that will be starting up lots of short-lived compiler processes which exit quickly; top can only display the CPU load for those processes which are still running at the time it samples the system.
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