Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 17:22:38 -0500 From: "Robert Covell" <rcovell@rolet.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Incorrect Uptime Message-ID: <003701c24c85$ee9fb300$6401a8c0@kc.rr.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] We have a mail server running FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE. Every so often, say once a month, uptime says the server is running at 100% for 1, 5, and 15 displays. But when I go into top the system is 100% idle (or very close to it). The only way I have found to fix it is to reboot the box. I have found out that if uptime return 1.00 for the one minute it means the cpu is at 0% utilization. If it say 1.01 it is at 1% utilization. Anyone have an idea of why this would be happening? We use uptime to monitor the performance on the server, and cannot determine why this would be happening when it is really not at 100%. -Bob [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We have a mail server running FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE. Every so often, say once a month, uptime says the server is running at 100% for 1, 5, and 15 displays. But when I go into top the system is 100% idle (or very close to it). The only way I have found to fix it is to reboot the box. I have found out that if uptime return 1.00 for the one minute it means the cpu is at 0% utilization. If it say 1.01 it is at 1% utilization. Anyone have an idea of why this would be happening? We use uptime to monitor the performance on the server, and cannot determine why this would be happening when it is really not at 100%.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Bob</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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