From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-bk: something very wrong with top
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:42:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050206104229.GA1151@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050206022906.13ece818.akpm@osdl.org>
On Ne 06-02-05 02:29:06, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> >
> > There seem to be some problems with top:
> >
> > top - 10:19:24 up 4 min, 3 users, load average: 0.74, 0.48, 0.21
> > Tasks: 58 total, 2 running, 56 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> > Cpu(s): 55.1% us, 6.4% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 38.5% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
> > Mem: 1031424k total, 72840k used, 958584k free, 8804k buffers
> > Swap: 1953464k total, 5452k used, 1948012k free, 34860k cached
> >
> > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> > 967 root 34 19 2128 620 456 R 0.6 0.1 0:00.35 top
> > 1 root 16 0 1580 80 56 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.27 init
> > 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
> > 3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.31 events/0
> > 4 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
> > 9 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
> > 21 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
> > 97 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kblockd/0
> > 269 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
> >
> > ...while compiling kernel, 50%+ time is spent in gcc, but top does not
> > show it, or it shows it with something like 3% :-(. Same problem seems
> > to be in 2.6.10-rc3... Does anybody else see that?
>
> I can't say that I can see any difference between 2.6.10 and tip-of-tree.
>
> In fact 2.4 does the same thing: cc1 is either not shown at all or is shown
> as taking just a few percent CPU. Occasionally it blips up to 50%
> or more.
It happened in 2.6.10, too... Okay, probably I have just too fast
CPU. Sorry for the noise.
> Presumably cc1 just doesn't run long enough for it to register. How fast
> is your CPU?
2GHz athlon64...
Pavel
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2005-02-06 9:23 Pavel Machek
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