Eric.Jones wrote:
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>>> System seems CPU bound....upgrade CPUs SASA
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>> The box in question has 1.4 GHz cpus in it and you can't up grade
>> them. Doug
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> Hmmm, doesn't IBM offer an upgrade option for p650 owners --> p5-570 ??
> As I remember from the announcement letter, you were not limited to
> the original number of processors, either.
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> From the high runqueue numbers posted, the system seems to have
> more dispatchable work than CPUs to execute. With the Power5 SMT
> feature might provide some benefits to this workload, & the ability
> to have more than 4 CPUs would also be helpful.
>
> Eric

Umm, folks, the OP already told us that it ran acceptably on 6 450 MHz
previous generation processors - so it should be smokin on this machine.

Shouldn't we be asking for more info, like:

Was it running on 5.2000-04 on the other machine?

What differences in the progress configuration to tune it to less
processors?

Doesn't it seem a bit odd it is sys not usr that is hogging all the cpu?

Even if one doesn't want to get and set up nmon, even topas or sar will
give more information as to just what is hogging the system ....b