RE: HVLPTASK Task

["Glenn Birnbaum" <gbirnba@xxxxxxx>]

This is usually a scalar dummy job to account for CPU when in an LPAR'd
system.  The job is the scalar to account for the percentage of the
system that is not actually in the partition.  For example, you have two
partitions, each with 50% of the CPU allocated.  If one of the
partitions is only using half of it's allocated CPU, then at the entire
system level it's using 25% of the real CPU.  But the partition is using
50% of what it has available to it, so what happens is you will see real
work accounting for 25% and then another 25% is showing against
HVLPTASK. This is just a dummy job to make the partitions CPU percentage
meaningful in the context of the partition and not as a percentage of
the whole physical system's CPU. 

HTH,
Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike.Crump@saint-gobain.com [mailto:Mike.Crump@saint-gobain.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 10:09 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: HVLPTASK Task



Anyone know what this is?  I am assuming that this is something new for
since moving from V4R5 to V5R1.  I see it using anywhere from 4% to 30%
CPU utilization.


Michael Crump
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