Description of Problem: Running "sar -u" and pulling data from the current sa data file will some times list %user, %nice, and %system ALL being over 100% and idle being 0%. This of course the system average as well. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sysstat-4.0.3-1.i386.rpm How Reproducible: Not sure, let system collect data over a day - my system is fairly idle and then try display the day's sar processor time (sar -u) Steps to Reproduce: 1. leave system up for a day 2. run sar -u 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Values for %user, %nice, and %system that added to 100% not were each over a 100%. Also, average values that make sense as well. Additional Information: Here is output from sar -u ... 05:50:00 PM all 0.06 0.00 0.03 99.91 06:00:00 PM all 0.06 0.00 0.03 99.91 06:10:00 PM all 0.07 0.01 0.05 99.87 06:20:00 PM all 0.07 0.00 0.02 99.91 06:30:00 PM all 0.91 0.00 0.82 98.26 06:40:00 PM all 0.54 0.00 0.42 99.04 06:50:00 PM all 0.01 0.00 0.01 99.99 07:00:01 PM all 0.01 0.00 0.01 99.98 07:00:01 PM CPU %user %nice %system %idle 07:10:00 PM all 0.01 0.00 0.01 99.97 07:20:00 PM all 0.48 0.00 0.39 99.13 07:50:00 PM all 101.64 101.64 101.64 0.00 08:00:00 PM all 0.06 0.00 0.05 99.89 08:10:00 PM all 0.06 0.00 0.03 99.91 08:20:00 PM all 0.11 0.00 0.10 99.79 08:30:00 PM all 0.05 0.00 0.04 99.90 08:40:01 PM all 0.13 0.00 0.10 99.78 08:50:00 PM all 0.98 0.00 0.57 98.45 Average: all 101.47 101.47 101.47 0.00 [root@malibu sa]# uname -a Linux malibu 2.4.9-21 #1 Thu Jan 17 13:35:24 EST 2002 i586 unknown
Still a problem with 4.0.5-1 from http://people.redhat.com/teg/sysstat/ ?
I installed that new version and it looks OK but I haven't used that system heavily but you can assume for now that it is fixed.