Red Hat 4, 5 take a very long time to boot and iostat output incorrect
Slow boots of more than two hours or incorrect iostat output, such as 200% CPU utilization, can occur on x86 or x86_64 because of mismatched timers.
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Slow boots of more than two hours or incorrect iostat output, such as 200% CPU utilization, can occur on x86 or x86_64 because of mismatched timers.
This MRTG setup adapts monitoring tools to display hardware status. Scripts are needed for each hardware metric; this article uses IOSTAT tools.