On Feb 15, 16:46, Michael Blandford wrote:
> Subject: Wrong idle output from top
> Hello,
>
> I have a machine that has output from top that looks like:
>
> 119 processes: 87 sleeping, 16 running, 6 zombie, 10 stopped
> CPU states: 123.9% user, 73.4% system, 0.0% nice, 425146.8% idle
> Mem: 516928K av, 512692K used, 4236K free, 161708K shrd, 10564K buff
> Swap: 2096440K av, 166200K used, 1930240K free 158388K
> cached
>
> Notice the idle amount. That seems a little high to me :)
>
> The machine is very busy all the time. It has a load average of 15-20
> all the time.
>
> Does anyone know what causes the idle field to go crazy? Or how I could
> fix it?
>
> I searched the archive, but I didnt find anything like this.
>
> Michael
Load average of 15 - 20?!?! ==========8^(_______________________)
How the heck do you get the load that high?? I've never seen a load average
above 5, but then again, I've never tried.
512MB of RAM and 2GB swap space?? It sounds like you have a very unusual
machine here.
I've seen the same thing once with the overall CPU idle stat on my MP system
using the -C option, and that's with a load of 2.0 because of seti@home.
If you can easily reproduce the case, I'd suggest entering it as a bug in
Bugzilla.
Clarence Donath
mrdo.com
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