Re: question about CPU Wait%

From: Harvey, Bruce T. (BTHarvey_at_LMUS.LEGGMASON.COM)
Date: 12/29/03

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To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    Please provide the O/S version, Maintenance Level, ESS firmware release
    level, etc. I seem to recall something about this.

    Bruce T. Harvey
    Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc.
    Corporate Technology - UNIX Admin.
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    (410) 580-7383 - BTHarvey@LeggMason.com
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Abdellah Djebli [mailto:abdellah.djebli@SICKKIDS.CA]
    Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 2:20 PM
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: question about CPU Wait%

    Hi All,

    We have a system (6xCPU and 12GB RAM) running DB2 connected to an IBM ESS
    through two fiber SAN connections.
    My question i, why is it that Wait% column always shows 25-30 % where there
    is no IO/memory or CPU bottleneck.
    What are the CPUs waiting for?

    Thanks in advance.

    Abdu

    Here is an output of vmstat 1 20

    kthr memory page faults cpu
    ----- ----------- ------------------------ ------------ -----------
     r b avm fre re pi po fr sr cy in sy cs us sy id wa
     3 1 601868 1086361 0 0 0 78 182 0 1013 2964 1867 15 1 80 3
     1 2 601872 1086325 0 0 0 0 0 0 1782 5676 4217 19 3 47 32
     1 4 601872 1086256 0 0 0 0 0 0 1936 10431 7614 29 4 41 26
     0 1 601872 1086223 0 0 0 0 0 0 1481 4182 2966 0 2 78 21
     0 1 601872 1086209 0 0 0 0 0 0 1500 6300 4921 11 2 69 18
     1 1 601872 1086300 0 0 0 0 0 0 1563 4618 3248 5 2 70 23
     0 2 601872 1086424 0 0 0 0 0 0 2568 7020 6807 7 3 57 32
     1 5 601879 1086641 0 0 0 0 0 0 2066 7936 5657 5 4 59 31
     1 2 601879 1086737 0 0 0 0 0 0 1590 6203 4937 11 3 57 30
     1 3 601879 1086928 0 0 0 0 0 0 1645 5750 3425 3 2 64 31
     1 3 601893 1086913 0 0 0 0 0 0 1764 7277 3618 4 2 63 31
     0 2 601879 1086936 0 0 0 0 0 0 1953 7266 5748 13 4 59 25
     0 2 601879 1087053 0 0 0 0 0 0 1547 5753 3051 7 3 62 28
     3 1 601879 1086912 0 0 0 0 0 0 2150 7022 4256 13 5 51 32
     0 2 601879 1086967 0 0 0 0 0 0 1441 4229 2847 2 2 72 24
     0 2 601879 1086979 0 0 0 0 0 0 1280 3819 2411 1 2 77 21
     0 1 601879 1086960 0 0 0 0 0 0 1332 3871 2574 1 2 78 20
     0 1 601879 1086993 0 0 0 0 0 0 1321 3946 2622 2 2 77 19
     1 1 601879 1087064 0 0 0 0 0 0 1554 6473 5221 19 2 60 19
     3 0 601879 1087149 0 0 0 0 0 0 1456 5503 3235 16 3 61 20
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