Greetings,

I'm tracking i386 releng_7 on kind of old single CPU machine and I see very annoying problem.
top (-S) is not reporting things properly:

last pid: 20337; load averages: 0.43, 0.11, 0.04 up 0+13:20:07 14:37:44
123 processes: 3 running, 102 sleeping, 18 waiting
CPU: 75.0% user,  0.0% nice, 25.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
Mem: 108M Active, 702M Inact, 232M Wired, 1212K Cache, 112M Buf, 1958M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 10 root 1 171 ki31 0K 8K RUN 769:35 56.15% idle: cpu0
19375 root             1   8    0  3464K  1616K wait     0:00  0.20% sh
13 root 1 -44 - 0K 8K WAIT 7:35 0.00% swi1: net 33 root 1 -80 - 0K 8K WAIT 1:57 0.00% irq18: vgapci0 11 root 1 -32 - 0K 8K WAIT 0:59 0.00% swi4: clock sio 46 root 1 20 - 0K 8K syncer 0:46 0.00% syncer 1066 user 1 44 0 32508K 26368K select 0:27 0.00% kdeinit 977 root 1 44 0 71956K 50668K select 0:23 0.00% Xorg

As you can see the CPU is 0% idle but the idle process is accounted 56.15% It doesn't matter how the load is created - web browser, X, compilation or something else.
Top just reports that only idle process is eating CPU.

Here is part of dmesg info:

FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #10: Sat May 16 09:05:31 EEST 2009
    r...@cheffo.freebsd-bg.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CORE
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ (2200.22-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x20ff0  Stepping = 0
Features = 0x78bfbff < FPU ,VME ,DE ,PSE ,TSC ,MSR ,PAE ,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2>
  Features2=0x1<SSE3>
  AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
real memory  = 3221159936 (3071 MB)
avail memory = 3140956160 (2995 MB)

I'm using in my kernel:
options         SCHED_ULE               # ULE scheduler
options         SMP # tried without it - no difference

options         HWPMC_HOOKS
device          hwpmc

There are other changes from GENERIC, but they are removed/added drivers and I'm sure the problem is not there.

Any idea why top does not work properly?

--
Best Wishes,
Stefan Lambrev
ICQ# 24134177





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