funny idle time from time
Hello,
(Sorry if this is a well known problem...)
I am running Linux 2.4.8 with user tools somewhere between testing and
unstable.
Top says on an completely idle system (well.. should be almost
completely idle):
14:31:20 up 15 min, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.54, 0.42
89 processes: 87 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.2% user, 57.4% system, 0.8% nice, 41.6% idle
Mem: 255724K total, 252536K used, 3188K free, 74264K buffers
Swap: 491360K total, 54312K used, 437048K free, 26916K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
3 root 19 0 0 0 0 SW 56.9 0.0 4:39 kapm-idled
[...]
Where %57.4 percent CPU time is system, 41.6% is idle and 56.9% is
from kapm-idled.
I could make a few guesses at what is going on here (probably related
to the kapm-idled task, too), but first question: How does top
calculate the idle time?
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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