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From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
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To: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Re: /proc/stat weirdness
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 09:41:26 -0200
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On 21 April 2002 16:27, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > * top with continuous update
> > * output of "while true; do cat /proc/stat; done | grep -F 'cpu  '"
>
> I told you, I don't ever see any of this phenomenon.

I'd like to add that it is easily seen only on slower boxes.
It was really hard to catch on PIII 800 (1458 BogoMIPS):
top was too slow refreshing, cat script however was fast enough when 
redirected to file to show backstepping. See below.

Hey lkml folks, please run:
# while true; do cat /proc/stat; done | grep -F 'cpu  ' >/tmp/log
do you see something like this?

cpu  1170 0 3066 28631
cpu  1170 0 3066 28632
cpu  1170 0 3066 28634
cpu  1170 0 3067 28634
cpu  1171 0 3067 28634
cpu  1171 0 3067 28635 <<<
cpu  1171 0 3069 28634 <<<
cpu  1171 0 3070 28634 <<<
cpu  1171 0 3070 28635
cpu  1171 0 3070 28636
cpu  1172 0 3070 28637
cpu  1172 0 3071 28637

Or better yet, this hunter script:
#!/bin/sh
prev=0
while true; do cat /proc/stat; done | \
grep -F 'cpu  ' | \
cut -d ' ' -f 6 | \
while read next; do
    diff=$(($next-$prev))
    if test $diff -lt 0; then
        echo "$prev -> $next"
    fi
    prev=$next
done

It will print only 'bad' idle counter pairs
--
vda
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