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

[Sean O'Neill]

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.


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Sean O'Neill