Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:32:29 -0200 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] Alter steal time reporting in KVM |
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 09:24:42PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:36:24PM -0600, Michael Wolf wrote: > > In the case of where you have a system that is running in a > > capped or overcommitted environment the user may see steal time > > being reported in accounting tools such as top or vmstat. > > The definition of stolen time is 'time during which the virtual CPU is > runnable to not running'. Overcommit is the main scenario which steal > time helps to detect.
Meant 'runnable but not running'.
> Can you describe the 'capped' case?
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