vpar only sees 4 of 6 cpu's configured

[ikeleong]

hello;

I've got 3 vpar's on one hard partition.
one of the vpar's is configured for a min/max 4/6, for some reason this vpar will only use 4. The two other vpars are using the max cpu's configured.

Below is the output from vparstatus. How do I get this one vpar to see all 6 cpu's:
->vparstatus
[Virtual Partition]
Boot
Virtual Partition Name State Attributes Kernel Path Opts
============================== ===== ============ ======================= =====
vathena Up Dyn,Auto,Asr /stand/vmunix -lq
vutah Up Dyn,Auto,Asr /stand/vmunix -lq
vcupid Up Dyn,Auto,Asr /stand/vmunix -lq

[Virtual Partition Resource Summary]
CPU Num Num Memory Granularity
Virtual Partition Name Min/Max CPUs IO ILM CLM
============================== ======= ==== ==== ========== ==========
vathena 4/ 8 8 11 128 128
vutah 4/ 6 6 11 128 128
vcupid 4/ 6 4 11 128 128

Memory (MB)
ILM CLM
# User # User
Virtual Partition Name Ranges/MB Total MB Ranges/MB Total MB
============================== ====================== ======================
vathena 0/ 0 32768 0/ 0 0
vutah 0/ 0 32768 0/ 0 0
vcupid 0/ 0 32768 0/ 0 0

[Torsten.]

Each vPar must have a configured value for min and max CPUs.

This does not mean that it will always have this maximum number of CPU.

Run and post the result

vparstatus -v

vparstatus -A

[ikeleong]

hello;

I've attached the output from vparstatus -v and -A, I did it on the vpar in question.

thanks much;
Ike

[Torsten.]

This vPar is configured to have 4 CPUs.

Because you have 2 available CPUs, you can add the (on the fly) to this vPar using vparmodify.

Be aware that you always configure a

minimum
current
maximum

number of CPUs for a vPar.

In this case, the current is just != the maximum, so you can still add CPUs until current = maximum.

[ikeleong]

on the vpar in questin called vcupid I did:

->vparmodify -p vcupid -a cpu::6

and got the error below:

ERROR: The following low-level error occurred:

connection timed out
vparmodify: Error: iCAP failed to authorize addition of 6 cpu(s)

[Jannik]

you have one possibility to add 2 cpus to vcupid:

vparmodify -p vcupid -a cpu::2

you have unused memory?
32GB

I would change the max cpus to make the systems more flexible but that is only a thought.

[Eric SAUBIGNAC]

Bonsoir,

-a means "add". You don't want to add 6 cpu, just 2.

So "vparmodify -p vcupid -a cpu::2" should work better

Eric

[ikeleong]

okay I tried adding just the two via:

->vparmodify -p vcupid -a cpu::2

and got the same error

ERROR: The following low-level error occurred:

connection timed out
vparmodify: Error: iCAP failed to authorize addition of 2 cpu(s)

[Eric SAUBIGNAC]

So, what about "icapstatus" ?

[melvyn burnard]

looks like you ar etrying to exceed your iCap limi9ts here
Check iCap using icapstatus