The top program from procps 2.0.7 (as distributed with RH 7.3) computes the CPU states wrong if the machine has multiple CPUs and at least one CPU has more than 2^31-1 idle jiffies. If this CPU has been totally idle since the last refresh, top will die with a floating point exception, otherwise it will show a CPU usage of 100%. The bug is fixed in procps 2.0.11 (RH 9), so we could either just take the RPM from RH 9, or apply the (rather trivial) patch. Comments? hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | If the code is old but the problem is new |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR / LUGA | then the code probably isn't the problem. | | | hjp wsr ac at | __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Tim Bunce on dbi-users, 2004-11-05
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