Re: 1.3.77: /proc/uptime shows idle=0.00

Ronald Wahl (Ronald.Wahl@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Fri, 22 Mar 1996 21:51:21 +0100 (MET)


On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Michael Brennen wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Ronald Wahl wrote:
>
> > After upgrading to 1.3.77 I noticed that /proc/uptime shows a constant
> > value of 0.00 idle time. top reports 90% idle time.
>
> Very strange. I've followed the descriptions of idle time showing high in
> 1.3.76, but my server at relative idle (1.3.76) has always showed the
> normal 0.0x times. The server (now on 1.3.77) is also accurately
> reporting uptime.

rwa@goliath:~$ cat /proc/uptime
32829.88 0.00
| |
| +----- idle time which is constant 0.00 (also with heavy load)
|
+-------------- uptime

My system monitor depends on the idle value. At the moment it looks like
the system is busy.

ron

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