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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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