Hi,

Just to add the data just posted is of new p650.

Thanks
Riz

"Rizwan Abbasi" <abbasi2@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:41639869_3@news2.prserv.net...
> 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
> news:cjviud$h62$1@bob.news.rcn.net...
> >
> > "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
> >
> >
>
>