[CentOS] top not showing %CPU

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 00:42, Warren Harris wrote:
> I'm running with CentOS4 on a 2 cpu machine. I'm running a java process 
> which creates a large number of threads as well as other native 
> processes running under heavy load mixing 200+ audio streams. However, 
> top shows none of these having any %CPU time. All of them read 0.0, 
> except for top itself which occasionally shows up with 0.7, and 
> migration/N with 0.3. All other processes read 0.0. The load average of 
> the machine varies between 1.5 and 4.0.
> 
> Any suggestions on where to look for the problem would be appreciated,

What problem?  Your system should be spending most of its time
waiting for I/O to complete which doesn't show as CPU activity.

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