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. thank you, regards karan 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 16:31:41 all 59.27 0.00 33.08 7.64 0.00 16:32:41 all 57.09 0.00 33.79 9.12 0.00 16:33:41 all 58.26 0.00 33.66 8.08 0.00 16:34:41 all 57.12 0.00 35.23 7.64 0.00 16:35:41 all 56.99 0.00 34.34 8.67 0.00 16:36:41 all 57.66 0.00 34.12 8.22 0.00 16:37:41 all 56.98 0.00 35.53 7.49 0.00 16:38:41 all 58.76 0.00 33.67 7.57 0.00 16:39:41 all 57.92 0.00 34.68 7.40 0.00 16:40:41 all 56.79 0.24 34.27 8.69 0.00 16:41:41 all 55.90 0.00 34.22 9.88 0.00 16:42:41 all 52.91 0.00 34.59 12.50 0.00 16:43:41 all 55.17 0.00 34.48 10.34 0.00 16:44:41 all 58.15 0.00 32.46 9.39 0.00 16:45:41 all 56.74 0.00 32.84 10.42 0.00 16:46:41 all 56.95 0.00 35.55 7.50 0.00 16:47:41 all 59.12 0.00 32.60 8.28 0.00 16:48:41 all 55.79 0.00 36.36 7.85 0.00 16:49:41 all 57.65 0.00 34.32 8.02 0.00 16:50:41 all 55.51 0.13 33.85 10.51 0.00 16:51:41 all 50.75 0.00 42.00 7.25 0.00 16:52:41 all 56.49 0.00 35.52 7.99 0.00 16:53:41 all 57.03 0.00 35.36 7.60 0.00 16:54:41 all 57.68 0.00 33.51 8.81 0.00 16:55:41 all 56.73 0.00 33.86 9.41 0.00 16:56:41 all 57.49 0.00 35.26 7.25 0.00 16:57:41 all 55.58 0.00 35.84 8.57 0.00 16:58:41 all 57.39 0.00 34.91 7.70 0.00 16:59:41 all 59.22 0.00 32.35 8.42 0.00 17:00:41 all 55.34 0.13 35.37 9.16 0.00 17:01:41 all 55.33 0.00 35.93 8.74 0.00 17:02:41 all 58.71 0.00 33.59 7.70 0.00 17:03:41 all 57.44 0.00 35.18 7.38 0.00 17:04:41 all 58.04 0.00 34.92 7.04 0.00 17:05:41 all 56.99 0.00 33.81 9.20 0.00 17:06:41 all 57.97 0.00 34.30 7.72 0.00 17:07:41 all 59.36 0.00 33.72 6.92 0.00 17:08:41 all 57.01 0.00 34.18 8.81 0.00 17:09:41 all 58.91 0.00 33.21 7.89 0.00 17:10:41 all 56.63 0.13 34.44 8.80 0.00 17:11:41 all 56.18 0.00 35.71 8.11 0.00 17:12:41 all 58.58 0.00 33.33 8.09 0.00 17:13:41 all 57.87 0.00 32.99 9.14 0.00 17:14:41 all 57.80 0.00 34.47 7.73 0.00 17:15:41 all 53.85 0.00 35.29 10.87 0.00 17:16:41 all 58.09 0.00 34.07 7.83 0.00 17:17:41 all 54.55 0.00 36.10 9.35 0.00 17:18:41 all 57.64 0.00 34.33 8.03 0.00 17:19:41 all 58.15 0.00 34.15 7.70 0.00 17:20:42 all 56.31 0.13 34.14 9.43 0.00 17:21:42 all 55.30 0.00 34.98 9.73 0.00 17:22:42 all 55.56 0.00 32.84 11.60 0.00 17:23:42 all 55.78 0.00 35.30 8.92 0.00 17:24:42 all 57.89 0.00 33.55 8.55 0.00 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]