Top command output

[MARCONI SPA]

I have the following problem. In the output of top i have:
CPU............IDLE....
0 66.3%
....
15 10.0%
--- ----- -----
avg 100.0%
The average is always 100%. Why ?
I using HP-UX 11.00 64 Bit.
Thank's in advance .
Riccardo

[harry d brown jr]

What does glance report?

live free or die
harry

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Have you compared it with that of sar -u and glance outputs?. What do you get from them?

-Sri

[MARCONI SPA]

>What does glance report
The glance report is correct (Idle avg=23%). Only top is crazy and after running for few day.

bye Ric.

[harry d brown jr]

Do you have multiple cpu's? If so, I think there is a patch to correct top.

live free or die
harry

[Ian Dennison_1]

There is a previous forum issue about top command producing inaccurate output, in the last 2 weeks or so. Damned if I can find it.

Have you got the patch below?

http://europe-support2.external.hp.com/wpsl/bin/doc.pl/screen=wpslDisplayPatch/sid=8d4a8cf90b5835c856?PATCH_PATH=/hp-ux_patches/s700_800/11.X/PHCO_22686&HW=s800&OS=11.00

Share and enjoy! Ian

[Roger Baptiste]

hi,

Given its buggy output, TOP should be renamed as BOTTOM.

Top is not totally reliable. Use glance or sar to get the info you want.

HTH
raj

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi

There is some kind of patch issue with top.

Check out this thread for more details.
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x5e28cbaac6dcd5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Goodluck,
-USA..

[MARCONI SPA]

I have 16 CPU's. The last installed patch is PHCO_22686, but the problem it continues to remain. Which patch I must install?

Thanks Ric.