This will come in handy in case you ever come across this issue. I am seeing a strange occurrence in whm ‘Main >> System Health >> Show Current CPU Usage’ and in the base OS via the command line. (I know whm pulls cpu info from the OS via script) When I run a ‘ps aux’ from the command line I see the cpu usage is 58950531.5 but the ‘ps auxf’ and ‘top’ commands shows normal accurate cpu usage.
ps auxf
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 2009 0:00 [kthreadd]
ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 58950531.5 0.0 2872 544 ? S 01:39 0:00 init [3]
Oh, and all of the %cpu usage for every process says 58950531.5 when ps aux is used, ps auxf is normal
I have tried updating the kernel also with no joy
Linux host.domain.net 2.6.9-89.0.9.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 07:56:18 EDT 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
was at 2.6.9-67.0.15.ELsmp.
In researching this error, I did not see any other reference anywhere. I have repaired this issue by renaming the existing ps binary on the affected server to ps.bak and copying (scp) a pristine ps binary from another server to the affected server. On the server with the broken ps binary;
mv /bin/ps /bin/ps.bak
next,
scp -r root@server.com:/bin/ps /bin/ps
scp the file from the working server to the broken server. This will copy a working ps binary to the broken server and repair the issue.
Here is a working copy of the ps file in case you do not have access to another server; ***FILE***
To get the file from here to your server
mv /bin/ps /bin/ps.bak
cd /tmp/
mkdir ps/
cd ps/
wget https://g33kinfo.com/info/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ps1.zip
unzip ps1.zip
cp ps /bin/ps
Test the file;
ps aux
Bingo, working ps aux!
