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=Steal Time=
=Steal Time=

Revision as of 15:23, 9 May 2017

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Hypervisor

Steal Time

"Steal time" is the percentage of time a virtual CPU waits for real CPU while the hypervisor is servicing another virtual processor.

A high value means the physical CPU is overcommitted and more physical CPU should be allocated to the environment - or the VM should be moved on a different physical server. The steal time is reported by vmstat st.