Re: idle time vs uptime
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lost butler wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> The other day, I had posted message about sar/top misreporting idle
> times. I came across the command procinfo which gives this info.
>
> The idle time seems wrong. It is almost 4 times the uptime which
> doesn't make sense to me.
>
> sysutils: 1.3.8.5.1
> sysstat 5.0.6
> sarge
>
> I would appreciate some pointers to understand why this is happening
> and what I could do to fix it without rebooting.
>
> Thank you,
> with regards
> Karan
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Greetings Karan:
Nothing is wrong. System uptime is measured in seconds since the box
was started. Processor idle time is measured per processor, so on a
quad CPU box if the box is idle for 100 seconds, there are 400 seconds
of idle processor time. Everything sounds normal.
- -Scott
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