Oracle Performance Firefighting
by Craig Shallahamer

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* Ending sample time: When you first run sar, no output appears. But the activity information is being stored until the first interval is complete, and then the output line appears.

* CPU: The -u option shows the average for all CPUs. There is also a sar option to show utilization activity for each CPU. Refer to the sar manual page for details.

* %nice: Nice time. This represents the percentage of time during the sample interval that CPUs were servicing processes in which their priority had been lowered-in effect, they have been nice to other processes. This time counts as CPU utilization and can be also considered user mode time. Oracle systems tend to have zero nice time.

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