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Old 04-18-2005
chaandana chaandana is offline
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vmstat
When I exeute vmstat (e.g. vmstat 30 2),
in some machines I get some wierd result as the first line.
like: -117% or 208% for CPU idle percentage.
But the second line is alright.
Could someone explain this please.

Thanks !
Chaadana