[hobbit] RE: CPU Utilization Part 2 -- HELP!!!

Rich Smrcina rsmrcina at wi.rr.com
Fri Mar 9 20:05:46 CET 2007


I think that info comes from vmstat, take a look at vmstat to see what 
it reports.

James Wade wrote:
> The Operating System is Solaris.
> 
> The graph definitions have not been changed.
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>  
> 
> What should I look for with the client data?
> I’m not familiar with rrd.
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>  
> 
> Although if I look at all the clients overall, I see
> 
> the same thing, the averaging of CPU Utilization
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> is a flat-line on everything, even during peak loads.
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>  
> 
> Thanks…James
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>  
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> *From:* Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, March 09, 2007 12:53 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] RE: CPU Utilization Part 2 -- HELP!!!
> 
>  
> 
> What OS, version, etc.  And did you look into your client data file to 
> see what is in there?  And has anyone monkeyed with the graph definitions?
> 
>  
> 
> You have the smoking gun, but that's about all we have to work on...
> 
>      
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>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>     *From:* James Wade [mailto:jkwade at futurefrontiers.com]
>     *Sent:* Friday, March 09, 2007 12:49 PM
>     *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
>     *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] RE: CPU Utilization Part 2 -- HELP!!!
> 
>     I could not send all the graphs in the same email.
> 
>     This is the same system with the other two graphs,
> 
>     but this is a different monitoring tool another group
> 
>     uses. It shows CPU Utilization at 100% which is
> 
>     correct with a load of 120+. However, Hobbit, showed
> 
>     a flatline at 13%..
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>      
> 
>     I’m seeing this across the board on all the systems,
> 
>     and the tool below is being used by the other group
> 
>     showing the discrepancies. Any suggestions?
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>      
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>      
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>      
> 
>     Thanks….James
> 
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>     *From:* James Wade [mailto:jkwade at futurefrontiers.com]
>     *Sent:* Friday, March 09, 2007 12:42 PM
>     *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
>     *Subject:* [hobbit] RE: CPU Utilization -- HELP!!!
> 
>      
> 
>     I really need some help on the CPU Utilization graphs.
> 
>     They just don’t look correct.
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>      
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>     As an example, CPU Load on this box went to 120+,
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>     for an hour, but the CPU Utilization Graph for the same
> 
>     time period shows only 13% busy.
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>      
> 
>     James
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>      
> 

-- 
Rich Smrcina
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