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Testcase 06
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It's been found that sometimes onlining and offlining CPUs confuse some
of the various system tools.  In particular, we found it caused top to
crash, and found that sar wouldn't register newly available cpus that
weren't there when it started.  This test case seeks to exercise these
known error cases and verify that they behave correctly now.


Algorithm - Top
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Given a CPU to test that exists

Make sure the specified cpu is online

Loop until done:
  Start up top and give it a little time to run

  Offline the specified CPU

  Wait a little time for top to notice the CPU is gone

  Now check that top hasn't crashed by verifying its PID is still
  being reported by ps.

When exiting:
  Kill the top process
  Restore all CPUs to their initial state


Algorithm - Sar
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Given a CPU to test that exists

Make sure the specified cpu is offline

Loop until done:
  Start up sar writing to a temp log and give it a little time to run

  Verify that SAR has correctly listed the missing CPU as 'nan' in its
  tmp log

  Take a timestamp and count how many CPUs sar is reporting to be
  offline

  Online the specified cpu

  Take another timestamp and another count of offlined CPUs.

  Verify that the number of CPUs offline has changed

When exiting:
  Kill the sar process