sar -q and %runocc at 107%

[A. Daniel King_1]

Hi, folks.

How is this possible?

I ran:

sar -q 5 10

and say several instances of %runocc at over 100%. Any ideas? Unfortunately, I don't have the screen clip ... but I'm sure I'll get one tomorrow.

[John Poff]

Hi,

The %runocc is supposed to be the percentage of time that the run queues were occupied by processes that were runnable and in memory. It doesn't make any sense for it to be over 100%, so my guess is that you have found a bug. I checked the sar patches for 11.0 and 11i and none of them mention %runocc, so it might be time to call HP.

What version of HP-UX are you running? What model of system? How many CPUs?

JP

[A. Daniel King_1]

We just upgraded the machine, and I've not seen this again, yet. It was v2200, HP-UX 11.0.

[A. Daniel King_1]

16 CPUs