CPU Usage in SpyReport

Hello All,
I am trying to use the spyLib to get the CPU information for my
tasks. My spyReport says that the total CPU usage is 82%.
My understanding is that the total CPU usage should be always 100%
or very close to this figure. The CPU time used by all tasks should add
up to this figure.
Can anyone please help me to figure this out?
Thanks in advance

Regards,
Gautam Rao


Extract of SPY Report provided below for reference.

NAME ENTRY TID PRI total % (ticks) delta %
(ticks)
-------- -------- ----- --- ---------------
---------------
tRootTask usrRoot 37ffdf0 0 0% ( 0) 0% (
0)
tExcTask excTask 2feea20 0 0% ( 4) 0% (
1)
tLogTask logTask 2fd66b0 0 0% ( 0) 0% (
0)
tShell shell 2636090 1 0% ( 3) 0% (
3)
tWdbTask wdbTask 263d090 3 0% ( 0) 0% (
0)
tNetTask netTask 2645980 50 3% ( 266) 3% (
167)
tPortmapd portmapd 2640670 54 0% ( 0) 0% (
0)
cpciCommSvr 2fdc500 55 0% ( 0) 0% (
0)
tTelnetd telnetd 2642a20 55 0% ( 0) 0% (
0)
tLinkChk ethDrvLink 2299400 100 0% ( 0) 0% (
0)
nt0 tskAllTask 1d90500 205 0% ( 26) 0% (
14)
nt1 tskAllTask 1d61fd0 205 0% ( 24) 0% (
18)
nt2 tskAllTask 1d33aa0 205 0% ( 21) 0% (
17)
nt3 tskAllTask 1d05570 205 0% ( 41) 0% (
26)
nt4 tskAllTask 1cd7040 205 0% ( 22) 0% (
17)
nt5 tskAllTask 1ca8b10 205 0% ( 27) 0% (
22)
nt6 tskAllTask 1c7a5e0 205 0% ( 16) 0% (
9)
nt7 tskAllTask 1c4c0b0 205 0% ( 36) 0% (
23)
nt8 tskAllTask 1c1db80 205 0% ( 27) 0% (
19)
nt9 tskAllTask 1bef650 205 0% ( 34) 0% (
23)
LOG tskAllTask 1ba9010 205 0% ( 0) 0% (
0)
nT0 tskAllTask 1b77a00 205 0% ( 8) 0% (
5)
nT1 tskAllTask 1b66d50 205 0% ( 7) 0% (
4)
nT2 tskAllTask 1b560a0 205 0% ( 11) 0% (
9)
nT3 tskAllTask 1b453f0 205 0% ( 11) 0% (
6)
VIDL tskAllTask 2509040 254 74% ( 6582) 69% (
3399)
KERNEL 1% ( 112) 1% (
72)
INTERRUPT 0% ( 33) 0% (
24)
IDLE 0% ( 2) 0% (
1)
TOTAL 82% ( 8798) 79% (
4913)

1366 tasks were created.
1439 tasks were deleted.

> 1366 tasks were created.[color=blue]
> 1439 tasks were deleted.[/color]

I've used spyLib before and didn't have this problem - however, I'm
guessing it might be something to do with these figures. Perhaps there
are tasks that did some work and were deleted before the spyLib report
was generated, and their stats are not being listed. The spy job knows
how many ticks were in the last "spying" interval, and is using that
total to calculate percentages; hence, you get a total of < 100%
(because the CPU usage of deleted tasks is not being shown). That's my
guess, anyway.

More to the point - why are you creating/deleting so many tasks in such
a short space of time?

Hello Ben,
Thanks for your reply. I changed the program so that so many tasks
are not created/deleted in such a short span of time. Now the spylib
report shows the total as close to 95%. The other 5% is due to rounding
off errors in the percentage column.

Regards,
Gautam Rao