Re: Screen include for CPU percentage

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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Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com
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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 :)

 Thanks!
Alan Kincer - MCSE, A+