Re: problem with cpu usage (user)

[Matt Corks]

My apologies -- I've attached those files here.

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:51:00PM -0500, Matt Corks wrote:
>Greetings, all.  I'm having a problem with monit 4.8.2 on gentoo 1.4.16
>(Linux kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r6).  According to top all CPUs are mostly
>idle, but monit thinks the cpu user usage is hovering over 70%.  Having
>mpstat average CPU usage over the same cycle length as monit (2
>minutes) results in the same values as top.  I've read Martin Pala's
>description of how monit calculates those figures[1] but it's still not
>clear to me why they're so different; surely they can't both be right.
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Please find attached /etc/monitrc, /proc/stat, /proc/cpuinfo, and the
>output of monit -vI, top -b -n 1, and mpstat -P ALL 120 3.
>
>Many thanks,
>Matt
>
>[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg00794.html

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etc-monitrc.txt
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proc-stat.txt
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proc-cpuinfo.txt
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monit_-vI.txt
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top_-b_-n_1.txt
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mpstat_-P_ALL_120_3.txt
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