[rescue] "svc.startd" question - 32% system utilization?

[Phil Stracchino]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
> The thing I always heard from the performance engineers at $work-4 was that by imposing a load on the processor, top "pollutes" the results, and you need to consider that when reviewing results. 'vmstat' is similar, and imposes a much greater load on the CPU to reflect process start-up, you just give it a few intervals to let it "normalize".

Oh yeah.  The first row of results from vmstat, iostat etc. are useless.

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