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Subject: Re: G5 Xserve rackmeter broken?
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On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 20:55 +0300, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> I'm running with HZ=100 so the values are still probably within
> jiffy resolution, so perhaps the calculation should first do
> idle = min(idle, total)?

Does it gives you a reasonable output if you do that ?

Cheers,
Ben.