Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751825AbWIGS36 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:29:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751823AbWIGS36 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:29:58 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.232]:1227 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161072AbWIGSIy (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:08:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=googlemail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=JAKdd4KTBi4he2XxsxBFHVfxCHZXsF3KUCLQfQjQ4GeRN3EUTpJxBkoze/oKKe1ZUzFprID8BRlQHw+ZS67+u/NfHwJog3kXJXzA2WhLrtFfVo+9ncMI56RpuFQQIkOXh7r3gJn2Ho77rrRE0noG2Qe/ct2SXzStb0iSM6BNc4Y= Message-ID: <1b270aae0609071108h22bc10b0v5d2227abfc66c53c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 20:08:53 +0200 From: "Metathronius Galabant" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: top displaying 50% si time and 50% idle on idle machine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 864 Lines: 20 Hi, Kernel 2.6.17.11 with tg3 network driver, NAPI enabled (Distro CentOS 4.4). top shows strangely 50% idle even if the machine is _completely_ idle. top - 01:04:30 up 4 days, 12:05, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 34 total, 2 running, 32 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 50.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 50.0% si Mem: 3634452k total, 313284k used, 3321168k free, 71308k buffers Swap: 505896k total, 0k used, 505896k free, 220272k cached I find this pretty alarming - can somebody please enlighten me? Please include me on CC. Thanks, M. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/