Solaris vmstat and sar

list James Wade
Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:10:12 -0600
Message-Id: <03fc01c835d7$c0cadc20$user-96ebcf3887e7@xymon.invalid>

All,

 
Solaris vmstat is crummy for CPU Utilization.

 
If I do a vmstat on a Solaris box that's having high load,

I get 67% idle, yet sar shows 3% idle.

 
Has anyone seen this before?

 
sar -u 1 1

 
12:08:40    %usr    %sys    %wio   %idle

12:08:41      46      44       6       4

 
vmstat 1 1

 kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu 
r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr s3 s3 s9 s1   in   sy   cs us sy
id
 0 4 0 68897248 24039040 673 3180 1550 15 14 0 0 12 12 0 0 12901 44078 19363
18 15 67

So, what's the work around because Hobbit is using vmstat?

James