[comp.sys.apollo] vmstat and DSP90

YEOAK@NUSDISCS.BITNET (12/19/89)

Re: vmstat and DSP90

I've collected the following statistics from our DSP90 (3MB RAM)
running SR10.1 with default SYSTYPE=4.3:

===> /systest/ssr*/vmstat 2 5
 procs    memory          page            disk  net     faults     cpu
 r b w   avm  fre  re pi  po  fr  de  sr dr dw nr nt  da  ex  cs us sy id
------   --------  --------------------- ----- -----  ---------- --------
 1 0 0  2222    0   0  6   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0   0   2   0 95  0  5
 1 0 0  2222    0   0  4   0   0   0   0  2  0  0  0   0   0   0100  0  0
 1 0 0  2222    0   0  0   0   0   0   0  4  0  0  0   0   0   0 97  1  2
 1 0 0  2222    0   0  0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0   0   0   0100  0  0
 1 0 0  2222    0   0  0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0   0   0   0 97  0  3

Notice that the CPU user processes times (us under cpu) is strangely high,
I wonder anybody has tried using vmstat on DSP90 and got this kind of results.
I am puzzled by the high cpu-us time b'cos I was the only log-in user
thru' the terminal connected to DSP90. I didn't run any program except
/systest/ssr*/vmstat. The similar kind of statistics on DSP90
can be collected anytime using 'vmstat'.
I ran 'vmstat' on our DN580 series, the statistics showed a low cpu-us but
high cpu-id time which is very reasonable since nobody is doing anything
on those machines. Can anyone tell me wether 'vmstat' is reliable or
SR10.1 on DSP90 is doing something very different when it is on DN580?

The following ps might be helpful:
  PID TTY     STAT  TIME COMMAND
    1 ?       S <   0:32 /etc/init
    2 ?       R     2:13 null
    3 ?       S     1:41 purifier
    4 ?       S     0:05 purifier
    5 ?       S     0:53 unwired_dxm
    6 ?       S     0:00 pinger
    7 ?       S     0:06 netreceive
    8 ?       S    11:15 netpaging
    9 ?       S     2:06 wired_dxm
   10 ?       S     6:22 netrequest
   85 ?       S    25:34 /etc/tcpd
   90 ?       S     1:59 /etc/routed -h -f
   93 ?       S     0:02 /etc/inetd
   96 ?       S     0:01 /etc/ncs/llbd
   99 ?       S <   7:44 /etc/rgyd
  104 ?       S     0:00 /sys/net/netman
  106 sio1    R   3011:15 spm
  108 sio1    S     0:00 /sys/mbx/mbx_helper
  121 tty01   S     0:07 -ksh
  272 tty01   R     0:00 ps ax

Thanks in advance.
--AnnKian Yeo
  Email:  YEOAK%NUSDISCS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
  Department of Information Systems and Computer Science (DISCS)
  National University of Singapore (NUS)