Sorry Barton. I wasn't sure of a good wording and figured you would step in to provide the correct state of affairs.
/Tom Kern On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:19:39 -0800, Barton Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Please. ESAMON has been correcting the Linux numbers since the problem was discovered in >2001. > > > >Thomas Kern wrote: > >> I think that the discussion was that tools like PERFTK, ESAMON, CP IND >> USER show accurate numbers for what the whole virtual machine is using , >> and the the numbers from tools INSIDE a linux virtual machine such as >> TOP, SAR vary depending upon the level of the kernel, the distribution >> and the workload of the rest of the system. >> >> /Tom Kern >> >> Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I saw something in one of the postings that stated that the CPU >>> utilization numbers that were reported in the z/VM Performance Toolki t >>> on behalf of a Red Hat 4.6 z/Linux guest were not correct. Is it onl y >>> the PTK that does not report the correct numbers or is it any monitor ? >>> Do we know if the numbers reported are bogus on the high side or low >>> side? I am running z/VM 5.3 and the Linux Kernel is at 2.6.9-67. >>> >>> Thanks Terry >> >> >> >======================== ========================= ========================
