https://icanhazdowntime.org/categories/linux/ Recent content in Linux on Edward Muller Hugo en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:59:44 -0700 https://icanhazdowntime.org/posts/2012-05-30-about-steal/ Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://icanhazdowntime.org/posts/2012-05-30-about-steal/ <p>Steal can only be measured when the VM <em>wants</em> to use CPU, but the hypervisor decided to run a different VM. i.e. something like 25% steal means that 25% of the time the vm was doing <em>nothing</em> when it really really wanted to do <em>something</em>.</p>