devpts fails to mount

2007-07-04 Thread lost butler
Hi, dist: sid Since yesterday I have had the problem where konsole/eterm/xterm stop getting launched. A poke at the archives and the irc channel showed that devpts wasn't getting mounted automatically. I have to mount it manually to get the terms to work. How do I go about find out why u

idle time vs uptime

2007-04-05 Thread lost butler
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 s

sar output : cpu idle time: formatted

2007-04-03 Thread lost butler
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/po

sar output : cpu idle time

2007-04-03 Thread lost butler
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/po