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| 3263.1 |  | VMSNET::P_NUNEZ |  | Fri Mar 21 1997 17:45 | 8 | 
|  |     
    How does PWMON determine system idle time.  Again, I've got a customer
    running v5.0E who is having performance problems and PWMON is showing
    0% idle, yet MON SYSTEM shows the 4-cpu system to be only 135% active.
    
    VAX 6540 running vms 6.1.
    
    Paul
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| 3263.2 | single node or cluster ? | KERNEL::BURNST |  | Mon Mar 24 1997 04:39 | 7 | 
|  |     Have noticed that sometimes this happens if the node in question is not
    a cluster and works fine in a clustered environment.
    Also more noticble in eairlier versions 5.0e seem to work Ok but the
    only systems I tried was a 1 node cluster and a 2 node cluster bother
    running 5.0e but I had seen this before.
    
    Trev. UK CSC.
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| 3263.3 |  | VMSNET::P_NUNEZ |  | Mon Mar 24 1997 09:43 | 8 | 
|  |     
    He saw it on a non-clustered Alpha and on a 4-node VAXcluster that had
    only one node (VAX 6540/VMS V6.1) running PATHWORKS at the time.
    
    How is pwmon calculating this value?  
    
    Paul
    
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| 3263.4 | a quick incomplete answer | CPEEDY::KENNEDY | Steve Kennedy | Mon Mar 24 1997 11:09 | 9 | 
|  |     .3> How is pwmon calculating this value?  
    
    It's not - the idle values PWMON shows are calculated by the file
    server and retrieved for display by PWMON. Off the top of my head I
    don't know the details of how that value is generated within the file
    server and unfortunately I can't take the time to look right now.  If I
    get a few idle minutes to go take a look I'll post my findings.
    
    \steve
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| 3263.5 |  | VMSNET::P_NUNEZ |  | Mon Mar 24 1997 12:13 | 17 | 
|  |     
    >It's not - the idle values PWMON shows are calculated by the file
    >server and retrieved for display by PWMON. 
    
    So it's probably using the same code used by the cluster alias load
    balancing code:
    
      The  'average_node_idle_percentage'  is  calculated  periodically           
      based on statistics gathered by VMS' SPISHR services (used by VMS           
      monitor).                                                                   
    
    But is there a timeout or something that the "file server" (lmmcp or
    lmsrv?) will give up after and display 0%?  Possible issue with SPISHR
    services (ie, VMS version)?
    
    Paul
    
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| 3263.6 |  | UTRTSC::SWEEP | I want a lolly... | Tue Mar 25 1997 03:26 | 5 | 
|  |     No timeout, the values are stored in a global memory
    area, so they can be retrieved by all processes that
    map it.
    
    Adrie
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