So maybe you are seeing a bug in the kernel. Thanks for the warning. Generally, one would expect that the change in (user+nice+sys+idle) to be equal to the total number of jiffies available in an interval. For your five minute samples, that would be 30000 jiffies. Well for your machine it would be 8 times that for the 8 CPUs. If you sum across your data lines you don't get 240000. I see variation of about .1%.
If you want to assume that all the error is in the idle measurement you could replace idle with (240000 - (user+nice+sys)). I leave it as exercise to DEF and RPN that. If you want to track the error you can calculate the difference between measured and calculated and put error bars on you graphs. -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-users WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
