Re: top displaying 9999% CPU usage

2007-10-03 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > > > The only change is in 2 consecutive columns: "2911 502" -> "2912 500". > > Is processor usage calculated from those? Can someone explain how? > > The latter seems to be utime ...decreasing. No wonder if arithme

Re: top displaying 9999% CPU usage

2007-10-03 Thread Ilpo Järvinen
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 03 October 2007, you wrote: > > Try to capture the i/o log with the following command: > > strace -o top.log top > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > > This will show for sure whether the kernel gives out incorrect data or > > top misinterprets t

Re: top displaying 9999% CPU usage

2007-10-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 October 2007, you wrote: > Try to capture the i/o log with the following command: > strace -o top.log top Thanks for the suggestion. > This will show for sure whether the kernel gives out incorrect data or > top misinterprets them. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %ME

Re: top displaying 9999% CPU usage

2007-10-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Frans Pop wrote: I saw top occasionally displaying % CPU usage for a process. The first few times it was amarokapp, this last time it was kontact. Both applications were basically idle. The "cc1" is a kernel compile (rc9 + CFS :-). I cannot remember seeing this before, but as I also don't ru

Re: top displaying 9999% CPU usage

2007-10-03 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 3 2007 14:33, Frans Pop wrote: > >I saw top occasionally displaying % CPU usage for a process. The >first few times it was amarokapp, this last time it was kontact. >Both applications were basically idle. Yes this certainly sounds like KDE. Did you try with Gnome, or perhaps a simple `