Re: Screen include for CPU percentage

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was concerned about this, as well. WRKACTJOB is a real hog. I recommend 
using one of the surfaced read-only MI instructions, MATRMD - materialize 
resource management data - the C includes are in file MIH in library 
QSYSINC. MATRMD can be called from RPG, however, and probably even from CL, 
with some effort. The hardest part, with RPG, is translating some data 
types, and building appropriate data structures.

The functional reference documentation is now online at 
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/mi/index.htm

HTH

Vern

At 10:13 AM 8/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> Adding this burden to a burdened machine may give unexpected results. My
> memory is that obtaining this information is CPU intensive.
>
> Have you considered checking to see which programs are causing the
> slowdowns? It may be the same 2 or 3 programs, over and over? Or, it might
> be the same user, doing a query from hell.
>
>
>
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> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Date: Monday, August 11, 2003 08:18:40
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Screen include for CPU percentage
>
> Often during a single day my homely 9406 170 processes jobs that run the CPU
> hard n' heavy with usage up to 100% for up to an hour at a time. During this
> time my phone rings ff the hook from users who want to know "why the network
> is so slow." I explain to them that the machine is processing a
> labor-intensive job and that things should be back to normal soon (which it
> does).
>
> For some reason though I get the same calls over and over again. No matter
> how many times I explain it the explanation never seems to stick. Since not
> everyone has line access I do not want to explain WRKACTJOB CPU:% lookups
> every time this happens (they would probably forget that too anyway :)

-snip-

>  Thanks!
> Alan Kincer - MCSE, A+