On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 16:23, Dave Jones <djo...@itconline.com> wrote:
> So handling this approximately 1K times could drive the %steal up, I > think. > That appears to be nmon failing, probably picking up a stale pointer or following some bunny trail. It's something to pick up with Nigel. It does not directly contribute to CP overhead, but it's possible that the recovery consumes good CPU resources that make the guest compete harder for CPU resources to get the real work done, and find more contention when getting beyond allocated capacity. Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390