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Operating Systems HP-UX HPUX & Top Command Post 302250654 by DustBunny on Friday 24th of October 2008 02:12:43 AM
Old 10-24-2008
Hi mj62mj62,

Well to begin, let me tell you what type of server you have from the output you gave me. It should be a HP Integrity Superdome 32-way server. It can have up to 64 processor sockets, four per cell, with each cell having either single Intel® Itanium® 2 processors or dual-core Intel® Itanium® 2 processors. (Up to 128 processor cores total when using dual-core processors.)

Per the machinfo, it seems that you have 8 processors.

If this is my setup, I would configure it with npar and vpar on top of it. I do not say that it should be the case, however, the ideal plan of having a superdome/cell based server would be having npar's and vpar's on each npar's.

If you would like to check if you have configured vpar's on top of npar's, you can just check if the daemons for vpar are running using ps -ef | grep <dameon name>
vpard
vphbd
vconsd - Not for your case as your superdome is itanium based.

If yes, vpar should be configured I believe. Also, you can check using the swlist command to see if a vpar package is installed. Also, FYI, vpar lisence is issued on per "processor" basis.

FYI, parstatus for npar and vparstatus for vpar should work as well. You can use vparmodify to modify the parameters, however, first collect more information about the structure before modifying as if its configured and we modify, it depends on a lot of things. Including memory, iochasis, core io, processor set and memory granules, lba's and so on...

Comming back to the scenario.
Have you heard of the term icod? Actually, its "Instant Capacity on Demand". It works like this, when you purchase a superdome with required cellboards in it, you can do an offer while purchasing like you buy a cellboard with some processors, however, you would not be using it. If in case, you need an immediate requirement in future for 2 more cpu's, you pay the money to HP to collect a lisence and use that CPU for the specified period. So, that's when you use that processor and once the lisence expires, you're done and back to normal.

An important concept in npar's and vpar's on it is Processor Sets. Processor sets inter operate with other partitioning mechanisms in HP Partitioning Continuum and
also with the HP Utility Pricing offerings (iCOD, pay-per-use, and pay-per-forecast). The psets are fully integrated into PRM and can be configured using the PRM GUI.

So, I believe that this may also be a scenario here being this as a superdome server.

To be more clear on this situation, Check the below.
= How many cellboards do you have on your server?
= Is there a vpar configured on top of npar?
= If yes, how many N partitions are there and V partitions accordingly?
= Also, how many processors are allotted for each vpar?
= How many processors are floating?
=> floating processors are those who can move across vpar's without changing configuration.
= What about the information about licensing for your vpar?

These things should help you IN CASE, you have a vpar and npar setup on your server ELSE IF, am sorry.. lol.

Quote:
I had originally raised the question wondering if I was running the wrong version top.
That should not be the case I guess as top or machinfo wont work if case of a version problem or incompatibility, instead, it would not throw wrong information. As of I know.

I can help you with more information on whichever I know if the need may be

Cheers!
-DB

Last edited by DustBunny; 10-24-2008 at 03:18 AM..
 

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psrinfo(1M)                                               System Administration Commands                                               psrinfo(1M)

NAME
psrinfo - displays information about processors SYNOPSIS
psrinfo [-p] [-v] [processor_id...] psrinfo [-p] -s processor_id DESCRIPTION
psrinfo displays information about processors. Each physical processor may support multiple virtual processors. Each virtual processor is an entity with its own interrupt ID, capable of executing independent threads. Without the processor_id operand, psrinfo displays one line for each configured processor, displaying whether it is on-line, non-interrupt- ible (designated by no-intr), spare, off-line, faulted or powered off, and when that status last changed. Use the processor_id operand to display information about a specific processor. See OPERANDS. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -s processor_id Silent mode. Displays 1 if the specified processor is fully on-line. Displays 0 if the specified processor is non-inter- ruptible, spare, off-line, faulted or powered off. Use silent mode when using psrinfo in shell scripts. -p Display the number of physical processors in a system. When combined with the -v option, reports additional information about each physical processor. -v Verbose mode. Displays additional information about the specified processors, including: processor type, floating point unit type and clock speed. If any of this information cannot be determined, psrinfo displays unknown. When combined with the -p option, reports additional information about each physical processor. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: processor_id The processor ID of the processor about which information is to be displayed. Specify processor_id as an individual processor number (for example, 3), multiple processor numbers separated by spaces (for example, 1 2 3), or a range of processor numbers (for example, 1-4). It is also possible to combine ranges and (indi- vidual or multiple) processor_ids (for example, 1-3 5 7-8 9). EXAMPLES
Example 1: Displaying Information About All Configured Processors in Verbose Mode The following example displays information about all configured processors in verbose mode. psrinfo -v Example 2: Determining If a Processor is On-line The following example uses psrinfo in a shell script to determine if a processor is on-line. if [ "`psrinfo -s 3 2> /dev/null`" -eq 1 ] then echo "processor 3 is up" fi Example 3: Displaying Information About the Physical Processors in the System With no additional arguments, the -p option displays a single integer: the number of physical processors in the system: > psrinfo -p 8 psrinfo also accepts command line arguments (processor IDs): > psrinfo -p 0 512 # IDs 0 and 512 exist on the 1 # same physical processor > psrinfo -p 0 1 # IDs 0 and 1 exist on different 2 # physical processors In this example, virtual processors 0 and 512 exist on the same physical processor. Virtual processors 0 and 1 do not. This is specific to this example and is and not a general rule. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. >0 An error occurred. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
psradm(1M), p_online(2), processor_info(2), attributes(5) DIAGNOSTICS
psrinfo: processor 9: Invalid argument The specified processor does not exist. SunOS 5.10 21 Feb 2004 psrinfo(1M)
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