[HPADM] strange CPU bottleneck with high NICE value

IlicR_at_stentor.ca
Date: 04/18/05

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    To: hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl
    Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:44:49 -0400
    
    

    Hi,
         recently I got for support rp4440, with four CPU's and running some
    customized Applications over Oracle database. Issue is slow processing of data!
    Allegedly server is not "powerful" enough!
    Below I attached value from top. I haven't seen before such high value of NICE
    with another strange NI value of 22 ( with priority of 241) belongs to
    application!?

    Apr 18 13:03:55 2005
    Load averages: 0.79, 0.79, 0.81
    192 processes: 188 sleeping, 4 running
    Cpu states:
    CPU LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS
     0 0.53 28.5% 62.7% 7.4% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
     1 0.55 9.0% 83.2% 7.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
     2 0.99 1.4% 93.2% 2.2% 3.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
     3 1.08 10.0% 4.8% 8.4% 76.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
    --- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
    avg 0.79 12.4% 61.2% 6.4% 20.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

    Memory: 385204K (218916K) real, 497096K (250544K) virtual, 373264K free Page#
    1/12

    CPU TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
     2 ? 3583 app_owner 241 22 143M 132M run 114:53 98.94 98.76
    applicat_process
    .......................................................................................

    - All 3 processes belongs to application and all of them have value of NI 22
    while rest of the process are with NI 20 !?
    - Glance show almost same result NICE is over 60%
    - No memory bottleneck or swapping ( only 40 % of memory is used). Server is
    configured with 4Gb of memory and 8 Gb of swap.
    - It might be some disk bottleneck ( two disk with busy value about 40%). Server
    is attached to SAN. I'll arrange with DBA to move some dbf, but not sure that
    will solve problem.
    - Using Glance / Vmstat / Sar doesn't show any unusual problem (except one
    mentioned before).
    - Review kernel parameters and can't find anything unusual.

    As usual application team is persistent what setup on previous HP server was
    more efficient
    ( was K-460 with 1 GB of memory and 4 CPU). Basically application is not
    modified.
    Still I'm not able to figure out why application "push" main process into NI 22
    with so low priority ( still waiting for application response).

    Any idea or advice would be really appreciated. Do I missed something? TX in
    advance for any response.

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