Bug 5092 - top gives incorrect %CPU information on SMP machines
Summary: top gives incorrect %CPU information on SMP machines
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: procps
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael K. Johnson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-09-12 18:59 UTC by Jeremy Katz
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-10-04 21:38:31 UTC
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Description Jeremy Katz 1999-09-12 18:59:10 UTC 
With procps-2.0.3-1 as included in Lorax 6.0.55, top's
behavior has changed such that %CPU gives the share of CPU
time of one processor since the last screen updated.

From man top(1)
%CPU The task's share of the CPU time since the last
screen update, expressed as a percentage of total CPU time.

I believe that this is caused by the change in determination
of HZ in proc/sysinfo.c
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-09-12 22:42:59 UTC 
This should be fixed in the Raw Hide procps-2.0.3-1. Please reopen
this bug if not.
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 1999-09-12 22:44:59 UTC 
Whoops, this is still a problem in procps-2.0.3-1.
Comment 3 Michael K. Johnson 1999-09-20 00:44:59 UTC 
The bug is in the man page.  People report this as a bug whichever
way it works...
Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 1999-10-03 02:20:59 UTC 
The man page describes the behavior exhibited by top in
procps-2.0.4-2.  As far as I'm concerned, this bug can be closed.
Comment 5 Michael K. Johnson 1999-10-04 21:38:59 UTC 
Thanks!
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