htop 100% fake CPU load

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Recently my VPS show 100% CPU usage of all cores in htop and observium, but there is no process that uses > 5% CPU. In fact, the statistics of my VPS host shows there is no activity at all. Is this a bug? I've read something about a leap second. But the most answers doesn't help me.

PS: top shows there is no CPU usage. PPS: I'm running debian 8

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See http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31971/why-does-htop-meter-show-90-while-table-is-0-0 — Federico Sierra, Oct 08 '15 at 16:24

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 08 '15 at 16:49

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Htop does not know it is running on a kernel level VPS and is showing the CPU usage of the hardware, not just your VPS.

answered Oct 08 '15 at 16:49

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Maybe, but when I reboot the VPS. htop works fine. – Maarten Oosting Oct 08 '15 at 17:25

htop 100% fake CPU load

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