sar -u command is reporting 0% idle in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Issue
sar -u command is reporting 0% idle in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 while top and iostat are showing 98% idle
sar -u
Linux 2.6.9-42.ELsmp (XXXXXX) 05/24/10
04:41:26 CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %idle
04:41:28 all 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
04:41:30 all 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
04:41:32 all 8.74 0.00 78.64 12.62 0.00
04:41:34 all 1.97 0.00 98.03 0.00 0.00
04:41:36 all 1.97 0.00 95.57 2.46 0.00
Average: all 3.53 0.00 92.94 3.53 0.00
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Sysstat-5.0.5-11.rhel4
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