From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Rob Gardner <rob.gardner@hp.com>
Subject: Re: get CPU idle time?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:03:41 -0600
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David Carr wrote:
> Whats the best way to get the CPU idle time on xen?  I just want to know
> the idle time for the physical CPU.  I'm getting differing results between
> xenoprof and xentop (modified to add up all the domains).  Is there
> something I can trust?

Xenmon reports cpu idle time directly. Give it a try and see if it's 
trustworthy.

Rob