From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Rob Gardner <rob.gardner@hp.com>
Subject: Re: XenMon's first reading
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:27:55 -0700
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Tim Freeman wrote:

>In XenMon's file appending mode, a lot of times I'll get a strange first data
>point, e.g., the cpu% for dom0 will be 99.9 but the rest of the readings will be
>19-21 which are sane for the run.  I've been throwing the data point out, but
>was curious about it.  Is it unavoidable? 
>  
>

This problem has been reported before, but since it's so easy to work 
around it, we haven't put much priority on fixing it. I'm sure it's 
avoidable behavior. ;)

Rob