From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 16:32:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 16:32:51 -0500 Received: from packet.digeo.com ([12.110.80.53]:59053 "EHLO packet.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 16:32:50 -0500 Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:43:20 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Arador Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5: system time goes up to 100% Message-Id: <20030215134320.39bafc6e.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030215222229.10b56e5f.diegocg@teleline.es> References: <20030215222229.10b56e5f.diegocg@teleline.es> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Feb 2003 21:42:40.0061 (UTC) FILETIME=[29C8D6D0:01C2D53B] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arador wrote: > > Hi, i've the following case (more info provided below): > > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa > 0 1 44268 124776 10380 64736 5 8 93 37 600 281 11 2 85 3 > 1 0 44268 124160 10584 64736 0 0 196 196 1750 1518 1 41 49 9 > ... > 8209527 total 4,5041 > 8035501 default_idle 100443,7625 > 39060 ext3_find_entry 35,9007 > 19200 serial_in 171,4286 > 18957 check_poison_obj 131,6458 That all looks OK. Your machine is waiting on disk I/O. We changed the representation of the cpu states in /proc a while ago and I have a vague feeling that this has caused some versions of the userspace tools to confuse disk-wait with system time. Try grabbing the latest vmstat from procps.sourceforge.net