Re: Bottleneck I/O or CPU

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 01/07/04 

Date: 06 Jan 2004 23:37:25 GMT

hal___jordan@hotmail.com (Chuck) writes:

>Given this output from vmstat and iostat, what would you say the
>bottleneck is on this server? My main objective is to prove that it is
>not I/O. Memory doesn't seem to be an issue either. Judging from
>everything I've seen, the CPUs are the bottleneck.

Considering that the CPU is 34/65/1 for User/System/Idle, it seems
more like a system bottleneck than anything else.

The number of context switches seems on the high side too (50000
per interval?)

Casper 

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