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[Xen-users] DomU `top` statistics anomolies

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Subject: [Xen-users] DomU `top` statistics anomolies
From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:59:18 +0900
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Hi,

Apologies if this is answered somewhere. I couldn't find anything on the wiki or on the list for the past three months.

I'm getting strange CPU utilization statistics from top running within a DomU. I'm running xen snapshot 8885, linux 2.6.16_rc3 and procps-3.2.5. Dom0's statistics don't show any abnormalities.


Here's a cutdown version of what `xm top` shows for the test domain.

   NAME  STATE CPU(sec) CPU(%) VCPUS
testdom --b---       23    0.4    1


And here's what top running within the test domain shows.

load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.01
Cpu0 : 2.6% us, 3.2% sy, 93.4% id, 0.9% wa


`xm top` usage statistics, top's load average and top's individual process statistics all appear to be correct. Only the Cpu0 line shown by top seems to be incorrect. Watching it, it appears to be continuously converging on the correct values (during the course of writing this it has dropped down to 0.9% us, 1.2% sy, 97.5% id, 0.4% wa) rather than an average over the refresh interval.

Is this expected/normal behaviour?

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Jason Stubbs

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