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Operating Systems AIX AIX CPU waits Post 302645895 by bakunin on Thursday 24th of May 2012 08:59:50 AM
Old 05-24-2012
CPU "wait"s mean: a process, ready to be run (again) cannot be run AND there is no other process which could be run instead. In this regard "wait" is a special kind of "idle" - one, where there are indeed processes to be run whereas "idle" takes place when there are no processes to be run at all.

It is true that - like mentioned in the paper "Demystifying I/O Wait". CPU-intensive processes running at the same time could mask I/O-waits because the processor time is given to these CPU-intensive processes while the I/O-bound process waits. This doesn't seem to be the case here, though.

To see a considerable number of waits always means: the I/O-part of the systems operation is the bottleneck. All the other parts of the system are faster than I/O. This is not necessarily bad: some part always is the weakest link in the chain and if it isn't I/O it would be something else. The question is: is the systems speed enough for you purposes? If this is the case you have nothing to do - once it isn't fast enough any more you will know where to start.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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cpu_get_current(3)					     Library Functions Manual						cpu_get_current(3)

NAME
cpu_get_current - Return the caller's current CPU ID (libc library) SYNOPSIS
#include <cpuset.h> cpuid_t cpu_get_current( void ); PARAMETERS
The cpu_get_current() function has no parameters. DESCRIPTION
The cpu_get_current() function fetches the ID of the CPU on which the caller is executing. NOTES
This function is similar to the following call: getsysinfo(GSI_CPU_CURRENT, &cpuid, ...); However, cpu_get_current() returns the CPU identifier directly (as type cpuid_t), whereas the getsysinfo() call stores the identifier into a buffer (as type long) whose address is passed to the function. RESTRICTIONS
As is true for many system information queries, the data returned by cpu_get_current() may be stale by the time it is returned to or used by the caller. In other words, a context switch to a different CPU can occur after the "current CPU" has been fetched by the application. RETURN VALUES
The cpu_get_current() function returns the CPU ID of the processor where the caller is executing. This function always completes success- fully. ERRORS
None. SEE ALSO
Functions: getsysinfo(2), numa_intro(3) Files: numa_types(4) cpu_get_current(3)
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