Bug 107186 - Idle percentage in top sometimes gets very large
Summary: Idle percentage in top sometimes gets very large
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: procps
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-10-15 18:20 UTC by Forrest
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Environment:
Last Closed: 2004-02-13 23:55:26 UTC
Type: ---
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Screen shot of gnome-terminal when this happens (28.87 KB, image/jpeg)
2003-10-15 18:28 UTC, Forrest 		no flags Details
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Description Forrest 2003-10-15 18:20:51 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031009

Description of problem:
When running a dual-processor under load, top sometimes reports bogus numbers. 
This appears to happen when the percentages all add up to 100% or more:

cpu00   13.4%  85.4%  1.3%  0.0%  0.0% 0.0%  3638411059903264.4%

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
procps-2.0.17-1

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Put the system under load (the easiest for me is to run two instances of
setiathome)
2.  Watch top for a while

Actual Results:  Percent Idle jumps from 0 to a very large number

Expected Results:  Percent Idle stays a 0
Comment 1 Forrest 2003-10-15 18:28:10 UTC 
Created attachment 95208 [details]
Screen shot of gnome-terminal when this happens
Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2003-10-16 08:08:47 UTC 
Ugh. Probably related to the iowait patch.
Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2004-02-05 10:31:04 UTC 
Mass reassign to the new owner
Comment 4 Forrest 2004-02-13 23:55:26 UTC 
Seems to be fixed on Fedora Core 2 Test 1, so I'll close it, and
reopen this if it crops up again.
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