<div>How does it compare to say, sar -P ALL 1 in terms of %idle?</div>
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<div>-Jeff</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Myers, Timothy L.</b> <<a href="mailto:tmyers@autom.net">tmyers@autom.net</a>> wrote:</span>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">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 face="Arial" size="2">mpstat reports -</font></i></b><i></i> <br><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font><br>
<font face="Fixedsys" size="2">cpu min maj mpc int cs ics rq mig lpa sysc us sy wa id pc </font><br><font face="Fixedsys" size="2"> 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 face="Fixedsys" size="2"> 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 face="Fixedsys" size="2">
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 face="Fixedsys" size="2"> 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 face="Fixedsys" size="2">ALL 602 4 0 807 32642 15761 1 51214 100.0 43585 17.5 9.2 3.0 70.3 2.00 </font><br><font face="Fixedsys" size="2">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
</font> <br><font face="Fixedsys" size="2"> </font><br><font face="Fixedsys" size="2"> 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 face="Fixedsys" size="2"> 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 face="Fixedsys" size="2">
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 face="Fixedsys" size="2"> 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 face="Fixedsys" size="2">ALL 562 8 0 784 33099 16188 0 50958 100.0 45279 17.9 8.7 3.3 70.1 1.99 </font></p><br>
<p><b><i><font face="Arial" size="2">uptime reports</font></i> <font face="Arial" size="2">-</font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> <font face="Fixedsys" size="2">09:06AM up 2 days, 14:51, 56 users, load average: 41.50, 34.30, 29.37</font> </p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">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 face="Arial" size="2">I don't know but I suspect that the problems with the utmp and wtmp files are causing finger issues</font> </p><br>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2">The performance and processes are much more in line with mpstat run queue numbers than with uptime run able process numbers.</font></p><span class="sg"><br>
<p><b><i><font face="Palatino Linotype" size="4">Timothy L Myers</font></i></b> <br><b><i><font face="Palatino Linotype" size="4">Senior Developer</font></i></b> </p>
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