Re: [gentoo-user] 100% CPU usage with no processes to blame?

[Alex Schuster]

Grant writes:

> Shouldn't top have provided some kind of info for why the CPU usage
> was 100% for 5 minutes straight?  If it does display trends, shouldn't
> it have picked up on that one?

I bet it was updatedb. This is what top shows me when it is running:

Cpu(s): 15.6% us, 12.6% sy,  0.3% ni,  0.0% id, 70.2% wa, 1.3% hi,  0.0% si
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 1563 root      18   0  1936  928  528 R  8.9  0.2   0:09.68 updatedb

Whatever this "wa" entry is, probably something with I/O related waiting,
it seems is it not being taken into account for the %CPU culumn entry of the 
process.

I think whis was different with kernel 2.4, it did not show such a high 
load, while performing similar as now when updatedb was running.

	Alex
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