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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 1999 15:21:56 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "John E. Hein" <jhein@timing.com>
To:        "Kelsey Cummings" <kc@neteze.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   CPU times not displaying in 'top'
Message-ID:  <14310.42356.967207.638043@taz.timing.com>
In-Reply-To: <02d501bf03a6$f3d9e0a0$33f9c9d0@neteze.com>
References:  <02d501bf03a6$f3d9e0a0$33f9c9d0@neteze.com>

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Kelsey Cummings wrote at 13:30 -0700 on Sep 20:
 > I recently noticed that the cpu times on my server are not displayed under
 > top.  'uptime' reports the average cpu times.  I'm running 3.2-release with
 > and SMP kernel (dual pII-450 on a ASUS p2bs(?)) Is this something that I
 > should be concerned about?  What's broken?
[top output snipped]

FWIW, I get the same symptoms (3.2-STABLE dual CPU).  'ps' and 'vmstat' both
 behave the same way (they report 0 % CPU usage for all processes even under
 heavy load).

Note, I tried it after rebooting nearly 3 weeks ago, and it was not
 working.  Then I tried it when I received your email just to double
 check.  It was working!  So I ran 'xosview' (are you running that,
 too?), and it was working fine for about 10 minutes.  Then I got the
 following error message and all indicators (top, ps, vmstat) resumed
 their bogus '0% CPU usage' behavior.

Warning:  CPUMeter meter had a zero total field!  Would have caused a div-by-zero exception.
  Warning:  the CPU tick counters are not changing.  This could
be due to running a kernel besides /netbsd (or the equivalent for FreeBSD).
  If this is the case, re-run xosview with the -N kernel-name option.
  If not, then this is a bug.  Please send a message to
bgrayson@ece.utexas.edu, in addition to any send-pr bug reports
(or in lieu of -- it ought to get fixed faster if you contact me
directly).  Thanks!

For those that don't know, xosview is a GUI CPU/etc. meter (see
 /usr/ports/sysutils/xosview).


% uname -s -r -m
FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386

% ps auwx | awk '{print $3}' | sort -u
%CPU
0.0

% vmstat 3
 procs      memory     page                   disks        faults      cpu
 r b w     avm   fre  flt  re  pi  po  fr  sr da0 da1 fd0   in   sy  cs us sy id
 1 2 0   13748 10968   10   0   0   0  10   9   0   0   0  146   21  98  0  2 98
 1 1 0   15116  9704    2   0   0   0   0   0   0  59   0  419   35 192  0  0  0
 0 1 0   15620  8552    1   0   0   0   0   0   0  66   0  505   40 242  0  0  0
 0 1 0   18628 13636  104   0   0   0  65 528   0  86   0  556  195 252  0  0  0
 1 1 0   18628 12312    1   0   0   0   1   0   0  64   0  441   93 207  0  0  0


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