sar -P ALL command AIX 6.1

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What is the meaning of - in the cpu column below? Is it average of all CPU cores?

bash-3.00$ sar -P ALL 2 2
AIX tinapp1 1 6 00F6F78B4C00    11/27/13
System configuration: lcpu=4  mode=Capped
19:02:54 cpu    %usr    %sys    %wio   %idle   physc
19:02:56  0       13      15       0      72    0.30
          1        0       1       0      99    0.23
          2        0       0       0     100    0.24
          3        0       0       0     100    0.23
          -        4       5       0      91    1.01
19:02:58  0       12      15       0      73    0.29
          1        2       1       0      97    0.24
          2        0       0       0     100    0.23
          3        0       1       0      99    0.23
          -        4       5       0      91    1.00
Average   0       13      15       0      72    0.30
          1        1       1       0      98    0.24
          2        0       0       0     100    0.24
          3        0       1       0      99    0.23
          -        4       5       0      91    1.01
bash-3.00$ sar -P ALL 2 3
AIX tinapp1 1 6 00F6F78B4C00    11/27/13
System configuration: lcpu=4  mode=Capped
19:03:02 cpu    %usr    %sys    %wio   %idle   physc
19:03:04  0        9      11       0      80    0.28
          1        1       1       0      99    0.24
          2        0       0       0     100    0.24
          3        0       0       0      99    0.24
          -        3       3       0      94    1.00
19:03:06  0        9      10       0      81    0.28
          1        0       1       0      99    0.24
          2        0       0       0     100    0.24
          3        0       1       0      99    0.24
          -        3       3       0      94    1.00
19:03:08  0       12      16       1      70    0.30
          1        0       1       0      99    0.23
          2        0       1       0      99    0.23
          3        0       0       0     100    0.23
          -        4       5       0      91    1.00
Average   0       10      13       0      77    0.29
          1        0       1       0      99    0.24
          2        0       0       0     100    0.24
          3        0       0       0      99    0.24
          -        3       4       0      93    1.00

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 28 '13 at 01:00

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From the sar man page:

the last line indicates system-wide statistics for all processors

So indeed the percentage columns are averages over all processors. The physc column is the total over all processors.

answered Nov 28 '13 at 01:00

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

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