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Operating Systems AIX To get only the cpu info from the topas command terminal Post 302888293 by bakunin on Thursday 13th of February 2014 04:21:47 PM
Old 02-13-2014
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Originally Posted by rpm120
In the same way all the values such as Kern%,Wait%,Idle%,Physc and Entc from topas and sy,wa,id,pc &ec are not matching.

Infact the sample output's given were captured one after the other in the same server but the results seems to be not matching.
First, the first line of output of "vmstat" should always be ignored, as i said. Because you only have shown one line you should not use this output at all to base any assumption on it. IIRC it displays an average since last reboot or so, which is meaningless.

Second, the system is next to idle. Between 3.1% and 0% there is not much difference and the "load" could well change that much within one or two seconds (the time you needed to stop one and start the other process).

Third, both tools, "topas" and "vmstat" use a certain sampling interval, which is probably not the same per default. I use "topas" only rarely, so i could be wrong, but i believe the default sampling rate to be 2 sec. With "vmstat" there is no default, you have to provide a sampling rate (in secs). I usually start with 1 sec (my internal clock is counting that way) for intensive monitoring and (up to) 60 seconds for long-term observation.

Both, "topas" and "vmstat" get their data from the same OS interfaces, but because they treat these data differently they might end up displaying different values. I have never attempted to search for it, but i am sure you could find the OS calls both are using documented somewhere and you could write your own monitoring tool if you are determined enough. I always found that "vmstat" is giving me the data i need and in a form i can easily manipulate with the abundant UNIX text filters there are (grep, awk, sed, ksh, ....). This is why i myself use "vmstat" and hardly ever "topas": personal preference rather than technical reasons.

I hope this clears it up.

bakunin
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VMSTAT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 VMSTAT(8)

NAME
vmstat -- report virtual memory statistics SYNOPSIS
vmstat [-afHhimPsz] [-M core [-N system]] [-c count] [-n devs] [-p type,if,pass] [-w wait] [disks ...] [wait [count]] DESCRIPTION
The vmstat utility reports certain kernel statistics kept about process, virtual memory, disk, trap and cpu activity. If the -M option is not specified, information is obtained from the currently running kernel via the sysctl(3) interface. Otherwise, infor- mation is read from the specified core file, using the name list from the specified kernel image (or from the default image). The options are as follows: -a When used with -i, include statistics about interrupts that have never been generated. -c Repeat the display count times. The first display is for the time since a reboot and each subsequent report is for the time period since the last display. If no repeat count is specified, and -w is specified, the default is infinity, otherwise the default is one. -f Report on the number fork(2), vfork(2) and rfork(2) system calls since system startup, and the number of pages of virtual memory involved in each. -h Changes memory columns into more easily human readable form. The default if standard output is a terminal device. -H Changes memory columns into straight numbers. The default if standard output is not a terminal device (such as a script). -i Report on the number of interrupts taken by each device since system startup. -M Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core. -N If -M is also specified, extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default, which is the kernel image the system has booted from. -m Report on the usage of kernel dynamic memory allocated using malloc(9) by type. -n Change the maximum number of disks to display from the default of 2. -P Report per-cpu system/user/idle cpu statistics. -p Specify which types of devices to display. There are three different categories of devices: device type: da Direct Access devices sa Sequential Access devices printer Printers proc Processor devices worm Write Once Read Multiple devices cd CD devices scanner Scanner devices optical Optical Memory devices changer Medium Changer devices comm Communication devices array Storage Array devices enclosure Enclosure Services devices floppy Floppy devices interface: IDE Integrated Drive Electronics devices SCSI Small Computer System Interface devices other Any other device interface passthrough: pass Passthrough devices The user must specify at least one device type, and may specify at most one device type from each category. Multiple device types in a single device type statement must be separated by commas. Any number of -p arguments may be specified on the command line. All -p arguments are ORed together to form a matching expression against which all devices in the system are compared. Any device that fully matches any -p argument will be included in the vmstat output, up to two devices, or the maximum number of devices specified by the user. -s Display the contents of the sum structure, giving the total number of several kinds of paging related events which have occurred since system startup. -w Pause wait seconds between each display. If no repeat wait interval is specified, the default is 1 second. The vmstat command will accept and honor a non-integer number of seconds. -z Report on memory used by the kernel zone allocator, uma(9), by zone. The wait and count arguments may be given after their respective flags at any point on the command line before the disks argument(s), or without their flags, as the final argument(s). The latter form is accepted for backwards compatibility, but it is preferred to use the forms with -w and -c to avoid ambiguity. By default, vmstat displays the following information: procs Information about the numbers of processes in various states. r in run queue b blocked for resources (i/o, paging, etc.) w runnable or short sleeper (< 20 secs) but swapped memory Information about the usage of virtual and real memory. Virtual pages (reported in units of 1024 bytes) are considered active if they belong to processes which are running or have run in the last 20 seconds. avm active virtual pages fre size of the free list page Information about page faults and paging activity. These are averaged each five seconds, and given in units per second. flt total number of page faults re page reclaims (simulating reference bits) pi pages paged in po pages paged out fr pages freed per second sr pages scanned by clock algorithm, per-second disks Disk operations per second (this field is system dependent). Typically paging will be split across the available drives. The header of the field is the first two characters of the disk name and the unit number. If more than two disk drives are configured in the system, vmstat displays only the first two drives, unless the user specifies the -n argument to increase the number of drives dis- played. This will probably cause the display to exceed 80 columns, however. To force vmstat to display specific drives, their names may be supplied on the command line. The vmstat utility defaults to show disks first, and then various other random devices in the system to add up to two devices, if there are that many devices in the system. If devices are specified on the command line, or if a device type matching pattern is specified (see above), vmstat will only display the given devices or the devices matching the pat- tern, and will not randomly select other devices in the system. faults Trap/interrupt rate averages per second over last 5 seconds. in device interrupts per interval (including clock interrupts) sy system calls per interval cs cpu context switch rate (switches/interval) cpu Breakdown of percentage usage of CPU time. us user time for normal and low priority processes sy system time id cpu idle FILES
/boot/kernel/kernel default kernel namelist /dev/kmem default memory file EXAMPLES
The command: vmstat -w 5 will print what the system is doing every five seconds; this is a good choice of printing interval since this is how often some of the sta- tistics are sampled in the system. Others vary every second and running the output for a while will make it apparent which are recomputed every second. The command: vmstat -p da -p cd -w 1 will tell vmstat to select the first two direct access or CDROM devices and display statistics on those devices, as well as other systems statistics every second. SEE ALSO
fstat(1), netstat(1), nfsstat(1), ps(1), systat(1), libmemstat(3), gstat(8), iostat(8), pstat(8), sysctl(8), malloc(9), uma(9) The sections starting with ``Interpreting system activity'' in Installing and Operating 4.3BSD. BUGS
The -c and -w options are only available with the default output. BSD
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