[gentoo-user] Idle time

[Michael D. Roberts]

Hi,

I having a tiny problem with the idle time being ridiculously large in
the output of my 'w' command.  For example:

$ w
 14:01:45 up 5 days, 13:18, 12 users,  load average: 1.25, 1.21, 1.18
USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
root     vc/1      11Aug03 15:38m  0.39s  0.39s -bash
roberts  vc/2      Mon16   15:38m 10.68s  0.00s /bin/sh
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx
roberts  vc/3      Wed19   15:38m  0.03s  0.03s -bash
roberts  pts/0     Wed23    0.00s  0.00s  5:36  gnome-terminal
roberts  pts/2     Tue11    0.00s  0.00s  5:36  gnome-terminal
roberts  pts/3     11:49   12285days  0.00s  5:36  gnome-terminal
roberts  pts/4     Wed22    0.00s  0.00s  5:36  gnome-terminal
roberts  pts/5     10:22   12285days  0.00s  5:36  gnome-terminal
roberts  pts/7     Wed23   12285days  0.00s  5:36  gnome-terminal
roberts  pts/6     Wed09   30.00s  7.58s  7.54s ssh flare
roberts  pts/8     11:46   12285days  0.00s  5:36  gnome-terminal

Any suggestions?
Mike