The one I use here to monitor CPU usage in AIX is command called Topas http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixbman/prftungd/2365c53.htm
Sung Y. Lee "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> wrote on 09/27/2005 09:21:54 AM: > I suppose you could answer that question by monitoring CPU utilization ( > or paging) during the expire / reclamation cycle. > > Try the free demo of something like application manager 6 and monitor > it for several days and see if there is a spike during those times. > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/27/2005 9:07:30 AM >>> > I have a question to the group that I hope I can get some answer or > pointed to some doc's on. I have to justify buying an AIX 550 over a > AIX > 520. My argument is, that our Database backups and expire inventories > are running longer than they should on our 1 G two cpu 520 running 5.3 > AIX. The expire inventory runs for at least 5 to 6 hours and usually > has > about 700000 items. Our disk for the DB are separate channels raw disk > on an I/o chassis. My belief is that those two processes are CPU > intensive.. Am I correct? Our DB is about 50 GB. We backup about 230 > nodes and about 1.3 TB a night. We are running TSM 5.2.4. > > > > Office: 281-871-5502 | Mobile: 713-471-1844 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and > privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any > review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to > receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the > sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message.
