Bug 156395

Summary:	top shows almost constant CPU usage stats
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Stephan Binner <stbinner>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	suse-beta
Version:	Beta 7
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Stephan Binner 2006-03-09 11:00:56 UTC

Recently 'top' started to show an almost constant CPU usage stat line, like

Cpu(s):  2.3% us,  1.9% sy,  5.3% ni, 82.1% id,  8.2% wa,  0.1% hi,  0.1% si

even if the machine is busy. I looks like the numbers are now an average of a very long time while they have previously only be over the display update inverval.

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-03-09 11:56:49 UTC

I would plead for the `classic' behaviour and I think many users, too.

Comment 2 Hendrik Vogelsang 2006-03-10 10:56:59 UTC

we dont change any settings in top. so those are the default settings. Either you live with it or you configure top to behave otherwise...

Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2006-03-10 12:34:31 UTC

Please give a reference that it actually is a setting / how to change it.

quoting 'man top':

 k: %CPU  --  CPU usage
 The  task's  share of the elapsed CPU time since the last screen update

Comment 4 Stephan Binner 2006-03-10 13:20:51 UTC

Henne suggested to build procps without procps-3.2.5-cpu_hotplug.patch and so I did and then the reported error is gone.

Comment 5 Dennis Sieben 2006-03-13 16:49:17 UTC

I would like to say that the bug appears here too. And it's gone after installation of the packages Stephan build without the cpu_hotplug.patch. It seems, that this occurs on every 10.1 beta 7 machine (3 of 3 I've seen so far had the problem).

Comment 6 Hendrik Vogelsang 2006-03-15 11:41:30 UTC

fixed patch submitted