On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 09:24:49AM -0600, Howard Coles wrote:
> Ladies and Gents, of those of you who run AIX I have a question:
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> What would cause the wait of the CPU to constantly be this high? (or
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> what are some of the things)  My Disk is barely busy, the NIC which is
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> etherchanneled in failover mode, doesn't appear peaked out, so I'm
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> looking for some ideas.  Below is a snapshot of the topas screen:

Are you doing any tape I/O on this box?  Tape drives don't show up in
I/O stats, so if you have slow tape, that may be causing your 'wait'.

Just a guess.

Also, you may want to grab 'nmon' for AIX 5.3.  It is another nice real time
tool that has better formatting, allows for externalized output, and more
stats.

hth,

bob