On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:34:04PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I should be more clear - the idle % never goes below 33.3%, spends > most of its time at 33.3%, and the disks are not even remotely > saturated. They are 15K SCSI drives and the above is true even when > there is no apparent disk activity. Seems like the idle % is being > calculated incorrectly. I am just trying to found out if anyone else > seems anything simlar before I file a PR...
This kind of thing can happen if your world is out of sync with your kernel. Kris P.S. Please don't top-post. > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > > --V0207lvV8h4k8FAm > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 02:04:28PM -0700, Mike Harding wrote: > >>=20 > >> On 5.4-RC3, a Dell 2650 with two processors, and hyperthreading turned > >> off, a 'make -j4 buildword' never shows idle % less than 33.3, either > >> in top or systat. Anybody else see this, or know why it happens? > > > > Your disks are too slow to keep up? > > > > Kris
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