The man page of sar(1) describes wrong information about %util

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Issue

  • The man page of sar(1) describes wrong information about %util.
%util
      Percentage  of CPU time during which I/O requests were issued to the device (bandwidth 
      utilization for the device). Device saturation occurs when this value is close to 100%.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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