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Alex wrote : |
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>Recently, I have noticed one our servers (running Gentoo) shows something |
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>strange in the "top" command. |
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>The CPU usage % column shows *integer* values intead of *decimal*. |
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Hi Alex, |
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I had exactly the same symptoms and emailed Albert D. Cahalan which name |
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is mentioned in the man page for bugs. Unfortunately I didn't received |
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any reponse so far. Here is a copy of the mail I sent him: |
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Hi Albert, |
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I'm writting to you because your name is mentionned in the top man page. |
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If you're not concerned accept my apologies. |
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Looking at the time used by john the ripper to verify my users's password, |
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I noticed that it was displayed in a strange way for this process only as |
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you can see on this page: |
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http://christophe.garault.free.fr/top.gif |
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At the same time I looked at the process stat, but I'm not familiar at all |
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with what is called jiffies, so I don't know how to interpret these |
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values, nor as how to correlate them with what top displays. |
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marge 565 # cat stat |
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565 (john) R 1 565 21379 0 -1 0 1418 0 134 0 25034157 40796 0 0 19 19 0 |
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100 484316767 7073792 1434 4294967295 134512640 134628740 3221222240 |
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3221221388 134610107 0 0 0 8413187 0 0 0 17 0 |
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marge 565 # |
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Could you explain that to me or refer to a place where explanation is given? |
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Thanks in advance. |
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Regards. |
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Christophe Garault |
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