From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) 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
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.
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.
I'm marking this as fixed in Update 6. Please reopen if you continue to have trouble.