[kernel idle] taking up %CPU

From: Kevin Dea <kdea_at_alpine-la.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:56:11 -0700

Hello Managers,

Today, I noticed that our ES40 is running at a load of ~3 when it the
jobs it has shouldn't be pushing it much more than 1. I looked through
all the running processes and noticed that the [kernel idle] process is
taking up quite a bit of CPU resource. I checked the managers list
archive, and I only found questions when the %MEM is high, and nothing
for %CPU.

# ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY S STARTED TIME
COMMAND
root 0 51.7 3.6 3.56G 261M ?? R < Jul 10 4-15:20:31
[kernel idle]

I've checked our other Alphas and none of them have CPU usage nearly
like the ES40, even similarly loaded ones. Can someone shed some light
on this?

TIA,

Kevin

-- 
Kevin Dea
System Administrator
Alpine Electronics Research of America
Received on Tue Aug 29 2000 - 19:57:31 NZST

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