top and ps commands may show weird huge %CPU and TIME values
Issue
top, w and ps commands may show weird huge %CPU and TIME values:
# ps auxwww
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 296197453 0.0 19360 1540 ? Ss 13:15 13800504:45 /sbin/init
root 2 88028863 0.0 0 0 ? S 13:15 9270466:37 [kthreadd]
root 4 6749104 0.0 0 0 ? S 13:15 41582042:33 [ksoftirqd/0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 13:15 0:00 [migration/0]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 13:15 0:00 [watchdog/0]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 13:15 0:00 [migration/1]
root 9 2115534 0.0 0 0 ? S 13:15 1500971:41 [ksoftirqd/1]
root 2088 414932197 0.0 0 0 ? S 13:15 24771159:35 [kauditd]
root 2470 311725310 0.0 27636 856 ? S<sl 13:16 21605557:33 auditd
root 2486 6511132 0.0 255416 1876 ? Sl 13:16 4591433:55 /sbin/rsyslogd -i /var/run/syslogd.pid -c 5
root 2498 425807 0.0 10916 684 ? Ss 13:16 300194:21 irqbalance
rpc 2518 8725548 0.0 18972 892 ? Ss 13:16 22615553:11 rpcbind
rpcuser 2539 3549571 0.0 23344 1340 ? Ss 13:16 18966489:22 rpc.statd
# w
12:52:16 up 1 day, 1:39, 5 users, load average: 0.83, 0.31, 0.11
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
root pts/0 :0 Tue11 08:33 4:40m 236852days 236852days -bash
root pts/1 hostname Tue11 08:33 0.00s 910612days 4586days sshd: root [priv]
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
2.6.32-279.33.1.el6.x86_64
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 0 @ 2.90GHz
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