Re: funny idle time from time
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:37:17PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> Top says on an completely idle system (well.. should be almost
> completely idle):
> [...]
> CPU states: 0.2% user, 57.4% system, 0.8% nice, 41.6% idle
> [...]
> 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
> [...]
> 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?
Idle time is time in which the CPU is not executing any instructions.
kapm-idled executes HLT instructions to save power, so this time is not
strictly idle, though it is time in which no user process or other kernel
process is executing.
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- mdz
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