Hi,
Many thanks for the groups valuable thoughts, The old s80 was running AIX
4.3.3 and memeory there was 6GB,
here is the sar output
System Configuration: lcpu=4


11:29:46 %usr %sys %wio %idle

11:29:56 13 87 0 0

11:30:06 12 88 0 0

11:30:16 13 87 0 0


Average 12 88 0 0


here is the data requested from the topas

Kernel: 87.4%
User:12.6%
Idle:0%

Name PID CPU% PgSp Owner % Used 0.7

_progres 34166 10.8 3.9 tascsd1 NFS (calls/sec) % Free 99.2

_progres 152118 10.5 3.3 exaud10 ServerV2 0

_progres 123042 10.1 2.4 mahfcl3 ClientV2 0 Press:

_progres 151626 9.8 3.1 afticf9 ServerV3 0 "h" for help

_progres 129912 9.7 3.0 basktf6 ClientV3 0 "q" to quit

ksh 53210 9.2 95.2 support



Any help or hints or tips will be most apprecaited.


"Douglas R. Probst" <doug@catseye.pha.pa.us> wrote in message
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>
> "Timothy J. Bogart" <tbogart@frii.net> wrote in message
> news:416328d2$0$202$75868355@news.frii.net...
> > Eric.Jones wrote:
> > >
> > >>> System seems CPU bound....upgrade CPUs SASA
> > >
> > >
> > >> The box in question has 1.4 GHz cpus in it and you can't up grade
> > >> them. Doug
> > >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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:
>
> Yep, that is why I asked all those questions .
> You have to go back a few since the questions were sniped buy the IBM
> salesmen ;-)
> Doug
>
>
> >
> > 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
>
>