Grant writes:
> Shouldn't top have provided some kind of info for why the CPU usage
> was 100% for 5 minutes straight? If it does display trends, shouldn't
> it have picked up on that one?
I bet it was updatedb. This is what top shows me when it is running:
Cpu(s): 15.6% us, 12.6% sy, 0.3% ni, 0.0% id, 70.2% wa, 1.3% hi, 0.0% si
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1563 root 18 0 1936 928 528 R 8.9 0.2 0:09.68 updatedb
Whatever this "wa" entry is, probably something with I/O related waiting,
it seems is it not being taken into account for the %CPU culumn entry of the
process.
I think whis was different with kernel 2.4, it did not show such a high
load, while performing similar as now when updatedb was running.
Alex
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