CPU usage (Read by `top`)

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> > Now sched_yield(), itself, works well. The problem is that the task
> > that gave up the CPU is still being 'Charged' for it!
> 
> Well, I used to had worse case: software that sleeps "just before" it
> would be charged is charged 0% even if it eats 80% or so.
> 
> Clearly, cpu metering is broken. There's no easy way to fix it.
> 								Pavel
> -- 

Just wanted to get it into the queue of things that should be fixed
before the next big leap into some future improvement project that
sometimes leaves old bugs unfixed.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.3.39 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).


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