> You can get the latency information using lgrpinfo -l 
> command. This will 
> extract the latency table from the kernel. Note that these 
> latencies are just 
> approximation of the real node-to-memory latencies, but they 
> do give idea of relative latencies. On sparc systems these 
> latencies are static but on x86 
> system the system does some probing at boot time.

Just what I was after.

> This is a hard problem...

Agreed.

> We may consider two modes - human-readable and tense outputs 
> for automatic 
> parsing.

Would make a lot of sense. I was pleased to see one of the zfs monitoring
commands offers this.

> 
> Probably plgrp is not the right place for it, but we are 
> considering extending 
> ps(1) and prstat(1) so that you can see home lgroups using 
> familiar tools. Is it what you are looking for?

Yes. I think prstat makes a lot of sense - it already displays lots of
interesting info which you can't get at with ps (like the microstate stats).


Regards,


Phil.

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