Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:43:20 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.5: system time goes up to 100% |
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Arador <diegocg@teleline.es> wrote: > > Hi, i've the following case (more info provided below): > > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa > 0 1 44268 124776 10380 64736 5 8 93 37 600 281 11 2 85 3 > 1 0 44268 124160 10584 64736 0 0 196 196 1750 1518 1 41 49 9 > ... > 8209527 total 4,5041 > 8035501 default_idle 100443,7625 > 39060 ext3_find_entry 35,9007 > 19200 serial_in 171,4286 > 18957 check_poison_obj 131,6458
That all looks OK. Your machine is waiting on disk I/O.
We changed the representation of the cpu states in /proc a while ago and I have a vague feeling that this has caused some versions of the userspace tools to confuse disk-wait with system time.
Try grabbing the latest vmstat from procps.sourceforge.net
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