Why does sar reports duplicate timestamp entries?
Issue
- "sar" command displays duplicate entries with same timestamp, as below
03:58:01 AM all 5.36 0.07 11.92 0.06 0.00 82.60
04:00:01 AM all 5.45 0.07 11.95 0.06 0.00 82.46 <-----
04:00:01 AM all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 <-----
04:02:01 AM all 5.58 0.07 11.86 0.06 0.00 82.44
04:04:01 AM all 5.43 0.07 12.04 0.05 0.00 82.40
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04:58:01 AM all 5.36 0.06 11.91 0.06 0.00 82.60
05:00:01 AM all 5.47 0.07 12.02 0.06 0.00 82.38 <-----
05:00:01 AM all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 <-----
05:02:01 AM all 5.54 0.07 11.99 0.06 0.00 82.34
05:04:01 AM all 5.47 0.07 12.21 0.06 0.00 82.18
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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