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From: Jeff Schmidt <jschmidt@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] strange "top"?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:17:44
Message-Id: 1146067918.16723.21.camel@shuttle.bermanind.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-security] strange "top"? by Alex
1 On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 10:14 -0500, Alex wrote:
2 > Recently, I have noticed one our servers (running Gentoo) shows something
3 > strange in the "top" command.
4 >
5 > The CPU usage % column shows *integer* values intead of *decimal*.
6 >
7 > The server is a (dual?) Pentium4, running an SMP kernel.
8 >
9 > chrootkit doesn't show anything really unusual, no unusual ports appear to
10 > be open, and the kernel doesn't allow loading of modules.
11 >
12 > Is this just an artifact of SMP kernels or is something strange going on?
13 >
14 > Thanks
15 >
16 > -Alex
17 you've obviously upgraded procps.
18 I've verified that CPU is decimal on <=sys-process/procps-3.2.5-r1 and
19 integer on sys-process/procps-3.2.6
20
21 good news: it's not security relate.
22 bad news: I got used to the decimal output, too.
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Re: [gentoo-security] [OT] strange "top"? Christian Bricart <christian@×××××××.de>