On 5/11/2012 9:29 AM, Marti Raudsepp wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I read that PowerTOP 2.0 was released yesterday, so I decided to give
> it a run again. First I saw some discrepancy in the CPU usage reported
> by PowerTOP. So I ran "while true; do openssl speed aes -multi 4;
> done" to utilize all my 4 CPU cores at 100%. htop displays utilization
> 4x100% all the time. PowerTOP thinks:
> 
> Summary: 0.2 wakeups/second,  0.0 GPU ops/second, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and
> 187.1% CPU use
> 
>                Usage       Events/s    Category       Description
>             1816 ms/s      0.00        Process        openssl speed
> aes -multi 4
> 
> The usage numbers are clearly bogus.

hmm we assumed these gaps would go away with the new perfevent library
(it solved cases we had here at least).