http://blog.forret.com/2004/10/probe-average-cpu-utilisation-mrtg/ Tango, photography and whatever's bleeding edge Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:28:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://blog.forret.com/2004/10/probe-average-cpu-utilisation-mrtg/comment-page-1/#comment-92108 alexander Wed, 02 May 2007 08:38:48 +0000 http://blog.forret.com/2004/10/probe-average-cpu-utilisation-mrtg/#comment-92108 As vmstat manpage says, in the "continuous report with delay" mode "... the first report given is the average of the statistics since system boot". So the command above will give wrong number if we don't skip the first result. As vmstat manpage says, in the “continuous report with delay” mode “… the first report given is the average of the statistics since system boot”. So the command above will give wrong number if we don’t skip the first result.

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