--- procps-2.0.2-orig/proc/sysinfo.c	Sat Mar 20 12:38:48
1999
+++ procps-2.0.2/proc/sysinfo.c	Mon Aug 16 13:44:06 1999
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
 static int uptime_fd = -1;
 #define LOADAVG_FILE "/proc/loadavg"
 static int loadavg_fd = -1;
+#define CPUINFO_FILE "/proc/cpuinfo"
+static int cpuinfo_fd = -1;
 #define MEMINFO_FILE "/proc/meminfo"
 static int meminfo_fd = -1;

@@ -103,6 +105,11 @@
   unsigned long user_j, nice_j, sys_j, other_j;  /* jiffies
(clock ticks) */
   double up_1, up_2, seconds;
   unsigned long jiffies, h;
+  unsigned int ncpu = 0;
+  char *p;
+  FILE_TO_BUF(CPUINFO_FILE,cpuinfo_fd);
+  for (p = buf; p = strstr(p, "processor"); p += 9)
+    ncpu++;
   do{
     FILE_TO_BUF(UPTIME_FILE,uptime_fd);  sscanf(buf, "%lf",
&up_1);
     /* uptime(&up_1, NULL); */
@@ -111,7 +118,7 @@
     FILE_TO_BUF(UPTIME_FILE,uptime_fd);  sscanf(buf, "%lf",
&up_2);
     /* uptime(&up_2, NULL); */
   } while((long)( (up_2-up_1)*1000.0/up_1 )); /* want under
0.1% error */
-  jiffies = user_j + nice_j + sys_j + other_j;
+  jiffies = (user_j + nice_j + sys_j + other_j) / ncpu;
   seconds = (up_1 + up_2) / 2;
   h = (unsigned long)( (double)jiffies/seconds );
   switch(h){