Bug 60199

Summary: iostat and mpstat report idle percentage of 1004.96%
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: john.goshdigian
Component: sysstatAssignee: Tom Tromey <tromey>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description john.goshdigian 2002-02-21 20:41:00 UTC
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Description of problem:
iostat and mpstat report idle percentage of 1004.96%,
appears some proc info messed up on Alpha (works on x86)

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. iostat
2. mpstat
3.
	

Actual Results:  # iostat
Linux 2.4.9-14a (amt114.zko.dec.com)    02/21/2002

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
          16.25    1.26    2.23  1004.26

Device:        tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0        0.00         0.00         0.00         60          0
dev8-1        0.72         2.22         7.39    3263690   10875716

# mpstat
Linux 2.4.9-14a (amt114.zko.dec.com)    02/21/2002

04:38:38 PM  CPU   %user   %nice %system   %idle    intr/s
04:38:38 PM  all   16.25    1.26    2.23  1004.26   1025.62


Expected Results:  real values.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Alexandre Petit-Bianco 2002-03-05 02:33:51 UTC
This has been fixed and will be available with the next build.



Comment 2 Tom Tromey 2005-09-27 21:46:18 UTC
Ancient bug; ssupposedly fixed years ago.