Bug 71237 - incorrect idle percentage in top
Summary: incorrect idle percentage in top
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: procps
Version: limbo
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Alexander Larsson
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 39857 76797 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 67217
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-10 18:42 UTC by Ashok Kumar
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:45 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2002-08-12 09:37:03 UTC
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screen shot of top with incorrect idle percentage value (367.22 KB, image/png)
2002-08-10 18:44 UTC, Ashok Kumar
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Description Ashok Kumar 2002-08-10 18:42:34 UTC
Description of Problem:  Idle percentage in top utility is broken.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):  top (procps
version 2.0.7)

How Reproducible: always
 
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start a cpu intensive job like compiling the kernel.
2. open top in a terminal and after it updates the display a few times,
3. the idle percentage randomly/ alternatively changes to a large positive value
over 100. 

Actual Results:   large positive value over 100. 
 
Expected Results:  value in the range 0.0 to 100.0


Additional Information:

Comment 1 Ashok Kumar 2002-08-10 18:44:25 UTC
Created attachment 69866 [details]
screen shot of top with incorrect idle percentage value

Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2002-08-12 09:36:59 UTC
*** Bug 39857 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2002-08-12 10:23:23 UTC
Fixed in 2.0.7-25.


Comment 4 Alexander Larsson 2002-11-05 10:01:10 UTC
*** Bug 76797 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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