Re: (RMC) Re: [perf-discuss] Re: Prstat CPU display

2006-10-19 Thread Andrei Dorofeev
There is a new -N (unNormalized) option being added by the CPU Caps project which does exactly this. If you want it now, download the source code tarball and compile your own version of prstat. On 10/19/06, Bob Sneed, SMI PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Richard McDougall wrote: > Hi Bob, > > >>

Re: (RMC) Re: [perf-discuss] Re: Prstat CPU display

2006-10-19 Thread Bob Sneed, SMI PAE
Richard McDougall wrote: Hi Bob, I've often wanted to see prstat changed to consistently show 'percent of a CPU core', so that values might exceed 100 for multi-threaded apps, and so per-process values from the same task running on different configurations would be more comparable.

Re: (RMC) Re: [perf-discuss] Re: Prstat CPU display

2006-10-19 Thread Richard McDougall
Hi Bob, > I've often wanted to see prstat changed to consistently show 'percent of > a CPU core', > so that values might exceed 100 for multi-threaded apps, and so > per-process values > from the same task running on different configurations would be more > comparable. Can you expand on the sc

Re: [perf-discuss] Re: Prstat CPU display

2006-10-19 Thread Bob Sneed, SMI PAE
Richard McDougall wrote: Hi Cherian, The -m shows microstate percentages for each process; i.e. the percentage of time this thread spent on cpu as a percentage of the elapsed time of the sample. It doesn't correspond to the regular prstat percentage of the whole machine value - so it's actual

Re: [perf-discuss] Re: Prstat CPU display

2006-10-19 Thread Richard McDougall
Hi Cherian, The -m shows microstate percentages for each process; i.e. the percentage of time this thread spent on cpu as a percentage of the elapsed time of the sample. It doesn't correspond to the regular prstat percentage of the whole machine value - so it's actually a different metric. W

Re: [perf-discuss] Re: Prstat CPU display

2006-10-19 Thread adrian cockcroft
The man page states the difference but does not explain it in detail. CPU The percentage of recent CPU time used by the process. If executing in a non-global zone and the pools facility is active, the percentage will be that of the processors in the processor set in use by the pool to which t

[perf-discuss] Re: Prstat CPU display

2006-10-19 Thread Cherian Abraham
Hi All, Thanks for all the feedback. I tried to run both prstat and prstat -m option and here are the output displays... (showing only three processes). prstat -mL PID USERNAME USR SYS TRP TFL DFL LCK SLP LAT VCX ICX SCL SIG PROCESS/LWPID 25952 root 30 30 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 30 0.0 100