Comments on: CPU ‘Steal Time’ – the new statistic in top and vmstat http://3spoken.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/cpu-steal-time-the-new-statistic/ Honest opinions - freely given Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:47:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: celpjefscycle http://3spoken.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/cpu-steal-time-the-new-statistic/#comment-702 celpjefscycle Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:29:22 +0000 http://3spoken.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/cpu-steal-time-the-new-statistic/#comment-702 Thanks for information. many interesting things Celpjefscylc Thanks for information.
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]]> By: Rik van Riel http://3spoken.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/cpu-steal-time-the-new-statistic/#comment-113 Rik van Riel Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:59:50 +0000 http://3spoken.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/cpu-steal-time-the-new-statistic/#comment-113 Your description of steal time is almost correct :) Steal time is the time that (1) the CPU had something runnable, but (2) the hypervisor chose to run something else instead. Time where your virtual machine did not want to run anyway (and the hypervisor runs something else) do not count as steal time. Your description of steal time is almost correct :)

Steal time is the time that (1) the CPU had something runnable, but (2) the hypervisor chose to run something else instead.

Time where your virtual machine did not want to run anyway (and the hypervisor runs something else) do not count as steal time.

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