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 -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
