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Old 06-24-2013
Red Hat Linux question on top and vmstat outputs
RHEL 5.4

Our Linux machine seemed to be running slow. So, I ran the top and vmstat commands.

Question1.
I can see the process 11517 consuming 100% CPU . But that just means that this process totally utilizes one of the cores in a mult-core CPU. Right ? This machine apparently has two quad-core Intel processors


Question2. Can you spot any other issues from the below output ?

Question3. Is there an option in top command by which we can determine the number of CPUs in a machine ?

Code:
top - 16:10:53 up 75 days, 22:12,  4 users,  load average: 1.04, 1.14, 1.10
Tasks: 242 total,   2 running, 240 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 12.5%us,  0.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 86.3%id,  1.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:  32959980k total, 32741588k used,   218392k free,   300180k buffers
Swap:  6094840k total,      136k used,  6094704k free, 31481772k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
11517 oracle    25   0 6510m 776m 690m R 100.0  2.4  86:37.57 oracle
11279 oracle    16   0 6431m  67m  65m S  0.3  0.2   0:18.11 oracle
11656 oracle    15   0 6420m  99m  95m S  0.3  0.3   0:39.96 oracle
    1 root      15   0 10348  700  584 S  0.0  0.0   0:08.62 init
    2 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:02.16 migration/0
    3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.09 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.70 migration/1
    5 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.41 ksoftirqd/1
    6 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.79 migration/2
    7 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.24 ksoftirqd/2
    8 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.87 migration/3
    9 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.37 ksoftirqd/3
   10 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.73 migration/4
   11 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.14 ksoftirqd/4
   12 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.43 migration/5
   13 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.56 ksoftirqd/5
   14 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.43 migration/6
   15 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.24 ksoftirqd/6
   16 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.43 migration/7
   17 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.12 ksoftirqd/7
   18 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.62 events/0
   19 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.54 events/1
   20 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.17 events/2
   21 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.23 events/3
   22 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.64 events/4
   23 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.21 events/5
   24 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:03.29 events/6
   25 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.15 events/7

--- VMSTAT

Code:
$ vmstat 2 10
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 1  0    136 216496 301368 31483372    0    0    18   233    0    1  3  1 95  1  0
 1  0    136 216496 301368 31483372    0    0     0   186  156  239 12  0 87  1  0
 1  0    136 216496 301392 31483372    0    0     0   204  156  244 12  0 87  0  0
 1  0    136 216496 301392 31483372    0    0     0   180  166  249 13  0 87  1  0
 1  0    136 216496 301396 31483372    0    0     0   232  164  254 13  0 87  1  0
 1  0    136 216496 301396 31483372    0    0     0   236  165  236 12  0 86  1  0
 1  0    136 216496 301396 31483372    0    0     0   180  155  234 13  0 87  1  0
 1  0    136 216372 301416 31483372    0    0     0   252  165  257 13  0 86  1  0
 1  0    136 216372 301420 31483368    0    0     0   164  176  259 13  0 86  2  0
 1  0    136 216372 301424 31483372    0    0     0   298  156  249 12  0 87  0  0

# 2  
Old 06-24-2013
There could be a few things, I suppose. A database lock or I/O contention would be my next path to follow, however it also depends what you are running on. Is this a partition of a real machine (VMware or other partitioning software) and are the servers balanced properly, i.e. could another logical partition be consuming more than its fair share?


I hope that this gives you a pointer to work from.


Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
# 3  
Old 06-24-2013
Just for Question 3 - You can get the information from

Code:
cat /proc/cpuinfo

 
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