AIX Question

[Mailing List Account for Jason Runyan]

Mailing List Account for Jason Runyan wrote:
> David Holland wrote:
> 
>> Hello, I've been asked to determine how fast and how many CPUs are on 
>> an AIX server.  I done some looking at ibm.com and have only found 
>> info on tuning CPU use, but not how to tell what the CPU is.    Any 
>> suggestions are welcome.
>>  
>> Thanks,     David
> 
> Install aixtools from Bull's AIX freeware site, and install monitor.
> aixtools will give you a utility called mhz.  It shows speed.  I can't
> remember the best way for processors, but monitor will install monitor,
> and top.  run top and press "s" it will display the smp information.
> This of course shows the number of CPUs.  If you are running sar to
> collect stats, you can also run sar -P ALL, and it will show stats for
> all the CPUs rather than the composite stuff.
> 
I forgot "lscfg |grep proc" will display the processors, but the mhz 
utility is the only tool I have seen that shows speed.

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