system test

[kacou]

How can I to check the slowness of my system?

hp-ux (B.11.23,model,9000/800/rp3440).

[Patrick Wallek]

You log in.

You run some commands. If the commands take a long time to run, then your system is slow.

If you mean "how do I check WHY my system is slow?" then you need to start using some performance tools.

'top' is a good start to see what processes are running and using CPU. 'glance', if it is installed, is also very good.

You should also check to see if you are paging. 'swapinfo -tam' can provide useful information as can 'iostat'.

If you need better answers, better information is required.

[Jeeshan]

glanceplus will help you a lot

#glance


also sar can helps you with its parameters

#man sar (sar -v, sar -b, sar -d etc.)

[Anshumali]

"If you need better answers, better information is required." -good one.....

Its strange to see the reverse way of measuring the system performance, anyways...Check the ITRC for system performance and divide your search on CPU/Memory/Disk and identify the bottlenecks...

[kacou]

this the result of top command. is there a problem?
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System: SVR-EDW Fri Jul 11 18:33:31 2008
Load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.04
192 processes: 150 sleeping, 42 running
Cpu states:
CPU LOAD USER NICE SYS IDLE BLOCK SWAIT INTR SSYS
0 0.00 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
1 0.01 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2 0.00 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
3 0.00 0.0% 0.0% 3.0% 97.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
4 0.01 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
5 0.00 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
6 0.00 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
7 0.00 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
--- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
avg 0.00 0.0% 0.0% 0.4% 99.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

System Page Size: 4Kbytes
Memory: 32574236K (178400K) real, 43780356K (920800K) virtual, 3327704K free Pa
ge# 1/39

CPU TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
7 ? 87 root 191 20 49032K 43584K run 449:54 3.28 3.27 vxfsd
7 ? 91 root 191 20 2304K 2048K run 1:18 0.63 0.62 pagezerod
3 ? 1501 root 152 20 53956K 11156K run 32:45 0.29 0.29 cimserver

[Jeeshan]

Your CPU's are all idle and you have more than 3 GB memory free.

but what about the disks?

apply the command

#sar -d 5 5

[Patrick Wallek]

Looks good to me. You are not using much CPU at all. Most processors are 100% idle with no load on the system.

Are you actually seeing some sort of problem? What prompted you to ask the question?

[Anshumali]

Load averages are perfectly ok with no load on CPUs.
Though Glance doesn't come with 3440 unless you purchased the licensed separately...if you have what is the status from glance -m and overall disk status? Whats is actual problem you are observing.