[Orca-users] Extremely high ctxt/s switching numbers

[Blair Zajac]

Sean O'Neill wrote:
> 
> At 12:43 PM 6/10/2003 -0500, Pete Stoneberg wrote:
> >We recently upgarded some of our Compaq servers to Redhat 7.3.  About once
> >per day now, I see values in the ctxt/s field that cannot be right.  It
> >will log along at 30K to 80K and then I'll get a 14MM value for one 5
> >minute period.  This cannot be possible and sqews the graphs so bad you
> >can't see any of the real numbers for that day or beyond.  I'm running the
> >2.4.18 kernel.  I'm running orca 0.27b2.
> >Thanks.
> >
> 
> That sounds like a counter rolling over.

Good point.  Look at your raw input files and see what happens to them.

Best,
Blair

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