Hello,
I don't think you should compare like that. They are snapshots and only reflecting the status at that moment.
I did vmstat -n 5 5 on HP-UX and got:
VM memory page faults avm free re at pi po fr de sr in sy cs 65466 9823 22 8 2 0 0 0 1 113 3 139 CPU cpu procs us sy id r b w 37 4 60 2 0 0 65466 9675 6 4 1 0 0 0 0 113 377 87 2 1 96 2 0 0 71121 8536 174 43 5 0 0 0 0 117 6766 142 23 13 65 2 4 0 71121 8991 201 98 3 0 0 0 0 98 8594 238 65 24 12 2 4 0 84056 8990 86 34 1 0 0 0 0 103 3979 120 5 3 92 5 1 0 #
Here you can see that idle varies 60% 96% 65% 12% 92%
Regards
Lars
----- Original Message ----- From: James Wade To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 7:10 PM
Subject: [hobbit] Solaris vmstat and sar
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