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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't think you should compare like that. They
are snapshots and only reflecting the status at that moment.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I did vmstat -n 5 5 on HP-UX and got:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>VM
<BR>
memory
page
faults <BR>
avm free re at
pi po fr de
sr in sy
cs <BR> 65466 9823
22 8 2
0 0 0
1 113 3
139
<BR>CPU
<BR> cpu
procs
<BR> us sy id r
b
w
<BR> 37 4 60 2
0
0
<BR> 65466 9675
6 4 1
0 0 0
0 113 377
87 <BR> 2 1 96
2 0
0
<BR> 71121 8536 174
43 5 0
0 0 0
117 6766 142 <BR> 23 13
65 2 4
0
<BR> 71121 8991 201
98 3 0
0 0 0
98 8594 238 <BR> 65 24
12 2 4
0
<BR> 84056 8990 86
34 1 0
0 0 0
103 3979 120 <BR> 5 3
92 5 1
0
<BR>#
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here you can see that idle varies 60% 96% 65% 12%
92%</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lars</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jkwade@futurefrontiers.com
href="mailto:jkwade@futurefrontiers.com">James Wade</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=hobbit@hswn.dk
href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk">hobbit@hswn.dk</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 03, 2007 7:10
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [hobbit] Solaris vmstat and
sar</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">All,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Solaris vmstat is crummy for CPU
Utilization.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">If I do a vmstat on a Solaris box
that’s having high load,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I get 67% idle, yet sar shows 3%
idle.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Has anyone seen this
before?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">sar –u 1
1<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">12:08:40
%usr %sys %wio
%idle<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">12:08:41
46 44
6 4<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">vmstat 1
1<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> kthr
memory
page
disk
faults cpu <BR>r b w swap
free re mf pi po fr de sr s3 s3 s9 s1 in
sy cs us sy id<BR> 0 4 0 68897248 24039040 673 3180 1550 15
14 0 0 12 12 0 0 12901 44078 19363 <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">18 15
67<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">So, what’s the
work around because Hobbit is using vmstat?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">James<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>