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Re: Idle jiffies topped out on Mac Mini



On 8/29/05, curby . <curby.public@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a Mini where the idle jiffies counter (fourth value on first
> line of /proc/stat) has plateau-ed at 85949232.  I'm running Stable
> (3.1 Sarge).  I've got another almost identical setup at 82459702 idle
> jiffies and I'll see what happens, but I was wondering if anyone else
> has seen this, and if it should be considered a bug.  Thanks!

It turns out doing intensive disk operations was at least one cause of
the problem.  However, during the time that there were no reported
idle jiffies, system+user+nice jiffies didn't add up to 100 per second
as they should.  Even though everything has returned to normal, I
wonder why the system seemed to be losing track of what the CPU was
doing.

--Curby



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