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Bug 162108

Summary: only the main thread is shown by top(1)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Tru Huynh <pasteur>
Component: kernelAssignee: Jason Baron <jbaron>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 4.0CC: knoel
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Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-514 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Tru Huynh 2005-06-29 22:34:02 UTC 
Description of problem:
A threaded program can hide the cpu and io load since the main thread is the
only one reported by top(1).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-smp-2.6.9-11.EL (x86/x86_64 UP/SMP)
(not relevant procps-3.2.3-8.1, glibc-2.3.4-2.9, gcc-3.4.3-22.1)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. download the test case (loop.tgz)
2. tar xzvf loop.tgz && cd loop.d && make
3.
  
Actual results:

- top(1) is low and does not show any cpu heating process
- the load is high (%cpu and %sys)

Expected results:

the threaded program should be present in the top(1) processes.

Additional info:
2.6.12 kernel from kernel.org does not exhibit this feature
Comment 1 Tru Huynh 2005-06-29 22:34:03 UTC 
Created attachment 116151 [details]
test case
Comment 2 Jason Baron 2005-06-30 15:08:40 UTC 
ok, thanks, this should be fixed in our latest testing kernels, can you please
try the latest testing kernels at: http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/. thanks.
Comment 4 Tru Huynh 2005-06-30 17:09:51 UTC 
it is fixed in 2.6.9-11.21.ELsmp (x86_64) :)

top - 19:06:34 up 21 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.61, 0.56, 0.20
Tasks:  62 total,   2 running,  60 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  : 100.0% us,  0.0% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu1  :  6.9% us, 93.1% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   4060192k total,    89376k used,  3970816k free,     9652k buffers
Swap:  4192956k total,        0k used,  4192956k free,    36724k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 3217 tru       16   0 25660  472  372 S 99.7  0.0   3:09.11 loop               
...

Is there any known issue for 2.6.9-11.21.EL? I would rather not wait for U2
to get the fix for this thread issue :)

Thank you
Comment 5 Jason Baron 2005-06-30 17:42:22 UTC 
thanks for getting back so quickly on this :) I'm not aware of any serious
issues with that kernel, however its not an officially supported kernel. Support
can provide 'hotfixes', which are supported. So i suggest contacting our
support. Red Hat's Technical Support line at 888-REDHAT-1 or file a web ticket
at http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/. 

Feel free to follow up here, if there are any problems. thanks.
Comment 6 Jason Baron 2005-06-30 17:43:59 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152430 ***
Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-10-05 13:37:37 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html