mpstat on slackware 13.0 shows no utilization

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Published on 2011-01-12T02:54:29Z Indexed on 2011/01/12 3:55 UTC
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As the title says, the mpstat command, executed on Slack 13.0 continuously shows almost no processor utilization of any sort. In fact none of the output ever seems to change at all. The system is dual processor board with two hyperthreaded P4 Xeons. Any ideas?

08:50:06 PM  CPU   %user   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal   %idle    intr/s
08:50:06 PM  all    0.38    0.00    0.03    0.03    0.00    0.00    0.00   99.56   1510.46
08:50:06 PM    0    0.50    0.00    0.05    0.10    0.00    0.01    0.00   99.33     11.90
08:50:06 PM    1    0.32    0.00    0.03    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.00   99.64      0.00
08:50:06 PM    2    0.38    0.00    0.03    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.00   99.58      0.00
08:50:06 PM    3    0.29    0.00    0.02    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   99.68      0.00

This is, literally, the only output I can get from the program. No values change ever.

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