Two issues. 1) It looks like you are using less than 50% of your single processor IFL. Thus there is enough cpu to double the amount of work. but is there enough storage???
2) a better way to perform capacity planning would be to profile the transactions. For mail servers, use CPU per TCP Connect. Then simple matter of arithmetic i think. Then track cpu per connect, and connect rate over time. would be more useful. >From: Moloko Monyepao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hi! > >I have RedHat Linux 7.2 running under VM 4.3 . The linux >instance is running sendmail on a single IFL. VMPRF shows that >the sendmail instance is using an average of 44% of the IFL from >the following report ( USER_RESOURCE_UTIL_INTERIM ) . Does this >mean we can only have two of the same sendmail instances running >on this IFL can we have more?. If more, is it possible to give >me a estimation of how many of this sendmail instance can we run >on this IFL. The following is part of the report generated > >=09 >Userid Pct Total Virt Ratio Secs Logged Active Logged WSS >Resid Lockd > > =20 >VMLINUX1 44.9 12792 12598 1.0 0 475 475 42.01 130k >130k 0 >VMLINUX3 1.5 423 391 1.1 0 475 475 3.46 32630 >32630 0 >VMLINUX6 0.5 147 116 1.3 0 475 475 0.11 47072 >47072 0 >VMLINUX5 0.2 62 59 1.1 0 44 44 7.35 32034 >32042 0 > > =20 >Moloko Monyepao >OS390 System Programmer >arivia.kom >Tel : +27 11 800 3372 "If you can't measure it, I'm Just NOT interested!"(tm) /************************************************************/ Barton Robinson - CBW Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Velocity Software, Inc Mailing Address: 196-D Castro Street P.O. Box 390640 Mountain View, CA 94041 Mountain View, CA 94039-0640 VM Performance Hotline: 650-964-8867 Fax: 650-964-9012 Web Page: WWW.VELOCITY-SOFTWARE.COM /************************************************************/
