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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Anyone else running AIX 5.3ml3 seeing load numbers coming form uptime, to be less useful than the mpstat runque numbers?</FONT></P>
<P><B><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mpstat reports -</FONT></I></B><I></I>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Fixedsys">cpu min maj mpc int cs ics rq mig lpa sysc us sy wa id pc </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Fixedsys"> 0 275 1 0 160 7069 2986 0 13277 100.0 12950 17.9 9.6 3.9 68.6 0.51 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Fixedsys"> 1 16 0 0 165 7986 3601 1 11905 100.0 9791 17.6 8.7 2.5 71.3 0.49 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Fixedsys"> 2 179 1 0 163 8064 4211 0 11460 100.0 11374 16.3 9.0 2.7 72.0 0.49 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Fixedsys"> 3 132 2 0 319 9523 4963 0 14572 100.0 9470 18.1 9.5 3.0 69.4 0.51 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Fixedsys">ALL 602 4 0 807 32642 15761 1 51214 100.0 43585 17.5 9.2 3.0 70.3 2.00 </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Fixedsys"> 0 251 4 0 160 6926 2864 0 12986 100.0 11030 17.6 9.0 3.0 70.4 0.49 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Fixedsys"> 1 45 1 0 159 8211 3864 0 11921 100.0 13722 19.0 9.0 4.1 67.9 0.50 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Fixedsys"> 2 166 3 0 155 8425 4490 0 11967 100.0 10509 16.3 8.3 2.6 72.9 0.49 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Fixedsys"> 3 100 0 0 310 9537 4970 0 14084 100.0 10018 18.5 8.8 3.6 69.2 0.51 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Fixedsys">ALL 562 8 0 784 33099 16188 0 50958 100.0 45279 17.9 8.7 3.3 70.1 1.99 </FONT>
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<P><B><I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">uptime reports</FONT></I> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-</FONT></B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"></FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Fixedsys">09:06AM up 2 days, 14:51, 56 users, load average: 41.50, 34.30, 29.37</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am not seeing any of the slowness I would expect from this kind of load so I have spent the last couple of days with snapshots trying to figure it out just what is going wrong.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I don't know but I suspect that the problems with the utmp and wtmp files are causing finger issues</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The performance and processes are much more in line with mpstat run queue numbers than with uptime run able process numbers.</FONT></P>
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<P><B><I><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Palatino Linotype">Timothy L Myers</FONT></I></B>
<BR><B><I><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Palatino Linotype">Senior Developer</FONT></I></B>
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