Description of problem: I have been using an RSS aggregator called liferea. Its built with python. Occasionally, it will go out to lunch and start consuming large quantities of cpu. Gkrellm and the CPU panel app show the utilization going up. If I use the top command I see what looks to be an unused system. It doesn't register what the other utilities see. It looks like a very quiet and unused system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): top uses procps version 3.2.0 How reproducible: When it dies its consistent. Haven't figure out how to cause liferea to break. So far this is the only program that demonstrates this inability. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fire up liferea 2. Wait til CPU starts going up 3. pop open top Actual results: Top doesn't register the liferea process consuming all the cpu. Expected results: To see the top process being liferea or python, since liferea is python code. But I see neither Additional info:
Does liferea use threads ? If you switch on display of all threads in top, do things work the way they should ?
should be fixed with the 2.6.10 kernel