60% (on average) is deemed high for DB work? I was thinking that the "sy" (20%) was high; that is why I was thinking that my syscalls were the bottlekneck;
SMT is on running on a P720 (ie SMT=4), AIX TL6-SP3-1048 (6100-06-03-1048)
A DATA Base server (Universe DB). No changes on system , except volume, ie more user activity