Re: [report] renicing X, cfs-v5 vs sd-0.46

[Niel Lambrechts <unix@telkomsa.net>]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> This message prompted me to do some checking in re context switches myself, 
> and I've come to the conclusion that there could be a bug in vmstat itself.

Perhaps. perhaps not. :)

> Run singly the context switching is reasonable even for a -19 niceness of x, 
> its only showing about 200 or so on the first loop of vmstat.  But throw in 
> the -n 1 arguments and it goes crazy on the second and subsequent loops.

man vmstat:
"The first report produced gives averages since the last reboot.
Additional reports  give information on a sampling period of length delay."

Regards,
Niel