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Date:      Thu, 30 Dec 1999 08:10:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jaime Kikpole <jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com>
To:        Ferhat Doruk <Ferhat@Ihlas.Com.Tr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: strange 0.0% idle CPU
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912300808050.13931-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com>
In-Reply-To: <E09A70C7F4B6D311B0E600A0C929432008DB@EXCHANGE>

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On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Ferhat Doruk wrote:
> there is no load on the machine, idle percentage of CPU seems 0.0%. I think
> last pid:   938;  load averages:  0.00,  0.00,  0.00
> up 0+12:14:58  09:20:18
> 26 processes:  1 running, 25 sleeping
> CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0%
> idle
> Mem: 4500K Active, 6752K Inact, 14M Wired, 8348K Buf, 99M Free
> Swap: 261M Total, 261M Free
> 
>   PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>   171 root      10   0   988K   584K nanslp   0:00  0.00%  0.00% cron
>   127 root       2   0   824K   520K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% syslogd
>   904 root       2   0   888K   656K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% telnetd
>   935 root      28   0  1576K   920K RUN      0:00  0.00%  0.00% top
>   234 root       3   0  1336K   988K ttyin    0:00  0.00%  0.00% bash

	I see that you only used "top".  Try "top -S -s1" and see if you
find any additional information.  It could be that your sync (write data
to disk) process or some other process is using up this CPU time and its
not shown in the standerd "top" output.

							Jaime



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