Have you tried using powertop to investigate? Sure the tool was intended on tracking power consumption, but it's very useful for seeing what is waking up your guests.
Just a thought... On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Srivastava, Sagar <ssrivast...@iso.com>wrote: > > > > > We implemented latest patches on our SLES11 SP1 systems recently > > > > Now all the zLINUX guest are using almost 8 - 10 IFL mips extra per > Guest - that is increasing our load on the z/VM LPARs by 300 mips . > Unfortunately this is not so visible from the guest level and hence > difficult to find the culprit process/component. We have around 35 > guests per LPAR. > > > > I know there is some degree of overhead with patching and security - > but this seems excessive. > > > > Our workload is primarily websphere/java applications type. > > > > > > I have tried: > > 1) investigating top/sar etc command and process lists > > 2) checked Omegamon-can pinpoint nothing yet > > 3) several linux commands tools to (iostat/mpstat/iptraf etc but can > find nothing. > > > > > > Any insight from the gurus? Has anyone noticed this situation? Thanks > for going through my long note. > > > > Sagar Srivastava > > ISO, > > jersey city > > > > > > This email is intended for the recipient only. If you are not the > intended recipient please disregard, and do not use the information for any > purpose. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
