> are used differently.  The risk with summing percentages is
> that users get
> confused by > 100% values, if they don't read the
> sysperfstat docs or
> investigate using other tools to see what is really going
> on.  Bad, but not
> as bad as hiding real problems.

correct and this works good enough if users are informed what Disk IO and
Net IO is.
 
> of printing sum percentages for disk and net, print max
> percentages.  That
> way it never goes over 100% (avoiding some of the
> confusion), and still
> identifys individual network and disk problems.  Stefan - I
> haven't had a
> chance to code that, but you are welcome to do that if it
> sounds sensible.
> I'd print them as "M%Disk" and
> "M%Net" or something.

yep, this would be easy to clear the confusion. At this moment
Im happy the way sysperfstat works but for future we need to fix this.

stefan
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