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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] Alter steal time reporting in KVM
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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