Did you take into account the update interval of top and ksysguard ? 
The values are pretty much(as far as I can match them visually) same if we set the update interval same on both.

Tip:To change update interval in top press 's' or 'd'.

(In reply to isalliswell from comment #1)
> Did you take into account the update interval of top and ksysguard ? 
> The values are pretty much(as far as I can match them visually) same if we
> set the update interval same on both.
> 
> Tip:To change update interval in top press 's' or 'd'.

Also I believe that I/O also adds to CPU load, which isn't tracked by top (since it is not a process) - however not sure about this.

Furthermore, keep in mind that ksysguard isn't doing any calculations on it's own, but merely displaying a graph of the values in sysfs files.


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