On Thu Aug 16, 2012, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > I have a 6501-50 and installed Debian Sid onto a 32G mSATA SSD.
> > 
> > I haven't done extensive testing but performance seems to be good network
> > wise. However when I run htop it shows a near constant 100% cpu use most
> > of which is tagged as kernel use but it isn't assigned to any specific
> > kernel threads.
> > 
> > Has anyone witnessed anything like this on their 6501's?
> 
> That looks like a bug in htop. I can see the same thing on Squeeze and a
> custom 3.2 kernel, except that it's not accounted to kernel, it's not
> accounted at all:
> 
>    1  [******************************************************100.0%]
> Tasks: 93 total, 1 running
>    2  [##***                                                   5.6%]
> Load average: 0.43 0.65 0.74
>    Mem[|||||||||||||||||||||############******************306/882MB]
> Uptime: 2 days, 22:07:03
>    Swp[                                                       0/0MB]
> 
>    PID USER     PRI  NI  VIRT   RES   SHR S CPU% MEM%   TIME+  Command
>   7764 root      20   0  2552  1256   964 R  9.0  0.1  0:00.42 htop
>   2423 root      20   0 24380 15096 14452 S  3.0  1.7  2h46:45 pmacctd:
>    Core Process [default]
>   2462 proxy     20   0  180M  155M  2256 S  1.0 17.6 57:16.83 (squid) -YC
>    -f /etc/squid3/squid.conf
> 11329 dnsmasq   20   0  5312  1596   708 S  1.0  0.2  2:19.03
>    /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -x /var/run/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.pid -u dnsmasq -r
>    /var/run/dnsmas
>   2464 root      20   0 21280 11556 10776 S  0.0  1.3 19:24.03 pmacctd: IMT
>    Plugin [default]
>   2591 tomcat6   20   0  263M 39792  2020 S  0.0  4.4 14:21.65
>    /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java
>    -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/var/lib/t
>   3531 mysql     20   0  133M 29092  1948 S  0.0  3.2  1:55.54
>    /usr/sbin/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/media/hdb1/mysql --user=mysql
>    --pid-
> 
> While top shows that the system is mostly idle:
> 
> top - 11:43:34 up 2 days, 22:05,  2 users,  load average: 0.49, 0.71, 0.76
> Tasks: 115 total,   1 running, 113 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
> Cpu0  :  0.0%us,  1.8%sy,  0.0%ni, 90.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  8.1%si,
> 0.0%st
> Cpu1  :  1.0%us,  1.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem:    903632k total,   884628k used,    19004k free,   176692k buffers
> Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,   393492k cached
> 
>    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>   2423 root      20   0 24380  14m  14m S    6  1.7 166:41.26 pmacctd
>   7614 root      20   0  2504 1164  896 R    1  0.1   0:01.99 top
>   1014 nobody    20   0  6168 3716 1744 S    1  0.4  31:17.17 openvpn
>    719 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:31.93 flush-254:1
>   2462 proxy     20   0  180m 155m 2256 S    0 17.6  57:16.04 squid3
> 
> htop might be a bit broken.
> 
> Cheers, Chris.

Possibly. But I find it strange that it only happens on the soekris. It 
behaves fine on every other machine I have (couple amd quadcores, intel xeon 
quadcore, core2duo laptop etc), including a Raspberry Pi.

-- 
Thomas Fjellstrom
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