You can easly check steal time of your VPS if you run top command and take a look at the info there.

At the end of the cpu line you should see this:

Now, if you want to make sure steal time readings are correct use something like:

 dd if=/dev/zero | md5sum

This command will make sure your cpu is actually doing something. That way CPU steal time readings will be correct. After running this command on other vps I’m using I have got this:

Now you get the idea. This other VPS is oversold. Without using upper command I get this:

Let’s try again…

You should always make sure CPU is being used at that moment in order to get correct CPU steal time numbers…

Nick