CPU utilization

Hi,

I'm running TSM server 5.2.3 on an HP DL380 (Dual 3.2Ghz) with RedHat AS 3.0. What I'm finding is that no matter what load I put on the machine, TSM will not use more than 49.9% of the available CPU, even when there are idle cycles to be had...

Here's a typical "top"

09:10:09 up 6 days, 21:12, 5 users, load average: 9.80, 9.09, 8.64
124 processes: 122 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 35.0% 0.0% 39.2% 0.0% 12.1% 2.7% 10.7%
cpu00 31.8% 0.0% 33.6% 0.0% 21.3% 0.5% 12.5%
cpu01 38.2% 0.0% 44.8% 0.0% 2.9% 4.9% 8.9%
Mem: 3950388k av, 3927600k used, 22788k free, 0k shrd, 624800k buff
2978220k actv, 738336k in_d, 16412k in_c
Swap: 2048152k av, 0k used, 2048152k free 2195096k cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
14138 root 24 0 571M 571M 4400 S 49.9 14.8 888:03 0 dsmserv
7 root 15 0 0 0 0 DW 4.8 0.0 151:06 1 kswapd
2417 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 2.0 0.0 35:18 0 kjournald
490 root 15 0 305M 305M 1316 S 1.3 7.9 6:10 0 dsmc
30 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 1.2 0.0 34:44 0 raid5d
1 root 15 0 500 500 440 S 0.0 0.0 0:13 0 init
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 migration/0

Looking at threads we see that there are dsmserv threads on both CPUs, so it's not that dsmserv is "camped out" on one CPU....

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
9996 root 17 0 572M 572M 4400 S 13.8 14.8 0:14 1 dsmserv
4852 root 16 0 572M 572M 4400 S 9.0 14.8 12:43 0 dsmserv
9840 root 16 0 572M 572M 4400 S 8.7 14.8 0:34 1 dsmserv
9210 root 17 0 572M 572M 4400 D 5.0 14.8 2:28 0 dsmserv
855 root 15 0 572M 572M 4400 R 4.6 14.8 23:36 1 dsmserv
9471 root 17 0 572M 572M 4400 R 4.5 14.8 2:12 0 dsmserv
495 root 15 0 572M 572M 4400 S 3.5 14.8 19:15 1 dsmserv
5415 root 15 0 572M 572M 4400 S 3.5 14.8 10:14 0 dsmserv
8319 root 16 0 572M 572M 4400 S 2.7 14.8 4:15 0 dsmserv
9961 root 15 0 572M 572M 4400 S 2.6 14.8 0:14 1 dsmserv

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks

Jason Lee

DreamWorks Animation SKG