When our TSM server get's a very high cpu utilization, what is high
is the %sys.

                    %usr    %sys    %wio   %idle

        00:43:28      22      56      11      12
        00:44:28      22      57      10      11
        00:45:28      22      55      10      12

        03:37:30      12      50      19      19
        03:38:30      17      50      15      18
        03:39:30      14      50      15      21

        07:26:48      16      58      18       7
        07:27:48      18      58      17       7
        07:28:48      18      63      14       5

I don't ever see the %usr above the mid-twenty percent range.

q) What is TSM doing that causes so much system time?

At first I thought it was while it was moving large amounts of data
from the disk to tape pool, but on closer look, this is true for some
of the time but not other times while at the same disk read rate.

Thanks

Rick