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Bug 820856

Summary: Exceptional average report in mpstat
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Quan Wenli <wquan>
Component: sysstatAssignee: Peter Schiffer <pschiffe>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Version: 6.3CC: akong, jasowang, michen
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result show on "mpstat 1 59 " none

Description Quan Wenli 2012-05-11 08:26:30 UTC
Created attachment 583761 [details]
result show on "mpstat 1 59 "

Description of problem:
when doing performance testing of kvm network, we usually use mpstat to measure the cpu usage on host.sometimes exceptional average report is showed like "Average:     all    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00"

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

sysstat-9.0.4-20.el6.x86_64


How reproducible:
sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot up a guest
2.do netperf tests on guest,at the same time. measure cpu usage on host by using "mpstat 1 59"
3.check the attached the result 
  
Actual results:


Expected results:

cpu average can be computed well.

Additional info:

Comment 3 Peter Schiffer 2012-06-14 13:19:07 UTC
Quan,

please, was this issue also fixed in kernel-2.6.32-275.el6 (as the result of bug #820507)?

Thanks,

peter

Comment 4 Quan Wenli 2012-06-18 05:36:59 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Quan,
> 
> please, was this issue also fixed in kernel-2.6.32-275.el6 (as the result of
> bug #820507)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> peter

Yes, did not hit this issue in kernel-2.6.32-277.el6.
But I am interesting in how does average of mpstat computed, bug #820507 will only affect result of certain seconds, why all "zero" show in the average report.

Comment 5 Peter Schiffer 2012-06-18 11:35:11 UTC
Hi Quan,

the average is counted the same way as the rest of the statistics - difference between the two values; for average it is the first and last value. Also, there is the check whether the first value is not bigger than the second, what could happen with bug #820507.. so I think the zero average is from there..

Can I close this bug as a duplicate?

Thanks,

peter

Comment 6 Quan Wenli 2012-06-19 04:58:08 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> Hi Quan,
> 
> the average is counted the same way as the rest of the statistics -
> difference between the two values; for average it is the first and last
> value. Also, there is the check whether the first value is not bigger than
> the second, what could happen with bug #820507.. so I think the zero average
> is from there..
Thanks for your comment.
> Can I close this bug as a duplicate?
Yes,pease.
> Thanks,
> 
> peter

Comment 7 Peter Schiffer 2012-06-19 10:55:59 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 820507 ***