CedBer wrote:
> If I divide by 8 rather than 4, I have B=1/2*C ! (where B is the sum of 
> processes %CPU of top an C the usr+sys vmstat value)
>   
Are you observing that same discrepancy between prstat and vmstat? 
vmstat derives it's statistics from the cpu kstats...whereas prstat 
looks at the lwp ps(1) information file in /proc. I'm not sure what top 
uses...but I would imagine it looks at /proc as well.

Thanks,
-Eric
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