Re: sar output : cpu idle time: formatted
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 13:29 -0700, lost butler wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> I would appreciate some pointers on how to solve this problem.
>
> The output of sar shows cpu idle% to be zero when top being monitored
> at the same time shows 97%. I am using sarge. sysstat 5.0.6-5, 2.6.18
> kernel.
>
> Please cc the email to me, I am not subscribed to the list Any
> help/pointers would be really helpful.
If you had multiple processors, you could force it to give you "per CPU"
output. Hence the "all" which means "all of your CPUs".
> sample output
> 16:29:19 CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %idle
> 16:30:41 all 55.36 0.09 33.36 11.18 0.00
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