Bug 102446

Summary: CPU Detail Above 100% for Double Itanium
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Bernard Guillot <bguillot>
Component: sysstatAssignee: Charlie Bennett <ccb>
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Description Bernard Guillot 2003-08-15 07:54:38 UTC
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Description of problem:
On a Double 1.0 Ghz Itanium when running 

iostat (with/out -x ) get %idle and %user %sys well above 100%, up to 600% for
idle and user.

Extract
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
         461.60    0.00  129.00  433.40

Device:        tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0       71.20        86.40      2243.20        432      11216
dev8-1        0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

All My Other Redhat (9.0) run systat 4.0.7 and provide correct information even
on multiple CPU (Xeon).



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sysstat-4.0.1-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. iostat
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
         461.60    0.00  129.00  433.40

Device:        tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0       71.20        86.40      2243.20        432      11216
dev8-1        0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0


Expected Results:  User and Idle to be either under 100% (combine CPU) or under
200% (added)

Additional info:

Double Itanium HP 2 Gig Ram

kernel-2.4.18-e.31
kernel-smp-2.4.18-e.31

Comment 1 Bernard Guillot 2004-03-02 03:42:11 UTC
After Upgrading To Latest Kernel and Patches as of 2004-Mar-2. 
I still have the Same Problem.

I run only two type of application on this server.

1) Java Application (JDK From Sun)
2) Browser Mozilla

I have stop most services to ensure that none are creating the problem.

I can now run the server longer but still with smaller memory leak.

Comment 2 Charlie Bennett 2004-09-30 18:59:06 UTC
We believe this is fixed by sysstat-5.0.5.  If you can check this out
with the copy available at http://people.redhat.com/ccb/sysstat your
feedback would be much appreciated.


Comment 3 Charlie Bennett 2005-02-02 16:15:08 UTC
I'm marking this as fixed in Update 6.  Please reopen if you continue
to have trouble.