Solaris vmstat and sar

["James Wade" <jkwade (at) futurefrontiers.com>]

All,

 

Solaris vmstat is crummy for CPU Utilization.

 

If I do a vmstat on a Solaris box that's having high load,

I get 67% idle, yet sar shows 3% idle.

 

Has anyone seen this before?

 

sar -u 1 1

 

12:08:40    %usr    %sys    %wio   %idle

12:08:41      46      44       6       4

 

 

vmstat 1 1

 kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu 
r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr s3 s3 s9 s1   in   sy   cs us sy
id
 0 4 0 68897248 24039040 673 3180 1550 15 14 0 0 12 12 0 0 12901 44078 19363
18 15 67

So, what's the work around because Hobbit is using vmstat?

James