getProcessCPULoad returns different CPU percentage as comparead to top linux command

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Mon Nov 6 05:28:16 UTC 2023


Hi,

On 3/11/2023 11:50 pm, Nikhil Agarwal wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>                getProcessCPULoad returns different CPU percentage as 
> compared to top linux command intermittently . Does it supposed to 
> returned same data as top command always .  Should the getProcessCPULoad 
> value be same as  top/number of cpus always ?

I've no idea how top calculates what it does. The VM reads the first 
line of /proc/stat to get the various tick counters.

HTH.

David

> regards
> 
> Nikhil
> 


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