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@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
+========
CPU load
---------
+========
-Linux exports various bits of information via `/proc/stat' and
-`/proc/uptime' that userland tools, such as top(1), use to calculate
-the average time system spent in a particular state, for example:
+Linux exports various bits of information via ``/proc/stat`` and
+``/proc/uptime`` that userland tools, such as top(1), use to calculate
+the average time system spent in a particular state, for example::
$ iostat
Linux 2.6.18.3-exp (linmac) 02/20/2007
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ Here the system thinks that over the default sampling period the
system spent 10.01% of the time doing work in user space, 2.92% in the
kernel, and was overall 81.63% of the time idle.
-In most cases the `/proc/stat' information reflects the reality quite
+In most cases the ``/proc/stat`` information reflects the reality quite
closely, however due to the nature of how/when the kernel collects
this data sometimes it can not be trusted at all.
@@ -33,78 +34,78 @@ Example
-------
If we imagine the system with one task that periodically burns cycles
-in the following manner:
+in the following manner::
- time line between two timer interrupts
-|--------------------------------------|
- ^ ^
- |_ something begins working |
- |_ something goes to sleep
- (only to be awaken quite soon)
+ time line between two timer interrupts
+ |--------------------------------------|
+ ^ ^
+ |_ something begins working |
+ |_ something goes to sleep
+ (only to be awaken quite soon)
In the above situation the system will be 0% loaded according to the
-`/proc/stat' (since the timer interrupt will always happen when the
+``/proc/stat`` (since the timer interrupt will always happen when the
system is executing the idle handler), but in reality the load is
closer to 99%.
One can imagine many more situations where this behavior of the kernel
-will lead to quite erratic information inside `/proc/stat'.
-
-
-/* gcc -o hog smallhog.c */
-#include <time.h>
-#include <limits.h>
-#include <signal.h>
-#include <sys/time.h>
-#define HIST 10
-
-static volatile sig_atomic_t stop;
-
-static void sighandler (int signr)
-{
- (void) signr;
- stop = 1;
-}
-static unsigned long hog (unsigned long niters)
-{
- stop = 0;
- while (!stop && --niters);
- return niters;
-}
-int main (void)
-{
- int i;
- struct itimerval it = { .it_interval = { .tv_sec = 0, .tv_usec = 1 },
- .it_value = { .tv_sec = 0, .tv_usec = 1 } };
- sigset_t set;
- unsigned long v[HIST];
- double tmp = 0.0;
- unsigned long n;
- signal (SIGALRM, &sighandler);
- setitimer (ITIMER_REAL, &it, NULL);
-
- hog (ULONG_MAX);
- for (i = 0; i < HIST; ++i) v[i] = ULONG_MAX - hog (ULONG_MAX);
- for (i = 0; i < HIST; ++i) tmp += v[i];
- tmp /= HIST;
- n = tmp - (tmp / 3.0);
-
- sigemptyset (&set);
- sigaddset (&set, SIGALRM);
-
- for (;;) {
- hog (n);
- sigwait (&set, &i);
- }
- return 0;
-}
+will lead to quite erratic information inside ``/proc/stat``::
+
+
+ /* gcc -o hog smallhog.c */
+ #include <time.h>
+ #include <limits.h>
+ #include <signal.h>
+ #include <sys/time.h>
+ #define HIST 10
+
+ static volatile sig_atomic_t stop;
+
+ static void sighandler (int signr)
+ {
+ (void) signr;
+ stop = 1;
+ }
+ static unsigned long hog (unsigned long niters)
+ {
+ stop = 0;
+ while (!stop && --niters);
+ return niters;
+ }
+ int main (void)
+ {
+ int i;
+ struct itimerval it = { .it_interval = { .tv_sec = 0, .tv_usec = 1 },
+ .it_value = { .tv_sec = 0, .tv_usec = 1 } };
+ sigset_t set;
+ unsigned long v[HIST];
+ double tmp = 0.0;
+ unsigned long n;
+ signal (SIGALRM, &sighandler);
+ setitimer (ITIMER_REAL, &it, NULL);
+
+ hog (ULONG_MAX);
+ for (i = 0; i < HIST; ++i) v[i] = ULONG_MAX - hog (ULONG_MAX);
+ for (i = 0; i < HIST; ++i) tmp += v[i];
+ tmp /= HIST;
+ n = tmp - (tmp / 3.0);
+
+ sigemptyset (&set);
+ sigaddset (&set, SIGALRM);
+
+ for (;;) {
+ hog (n);
+ sigwait (&set, &i);
+ }
+ return 0;
+ }
References
----------
-http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/6
-Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt (1.8)
+- http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/12/6
+- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt (1.8)
Thanks