lparstat command on RHEL8 ppc64le showing incorrect values for physc %entc
Issue
- lparstat command on RHEL-8 ppc64le showing incorrect values in physc and %entc column
%user %sys %wait %idle physc %entc lbusy app vcsw phint
----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
0.00 0.25 0.00 99.75 1.99 995.00 0.25 0.00 268593196 11
0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 2.00 1000.00 0.00 0.00 268594820 11
0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 2.00 1000.00 0.00 0.00 268596492 11
0.12 0.00 0.12 99.75 2.00 1000.00 0.12 0.00 268598284 11
0.00 0.00 0.00 100.00 1.99 995.00 0.00 0.00 268600110 11
^ ^
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For an almost idle systems the above physc can be seen 2 CPUs consumed with 1000% capacity consumed.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- ppc64le
- lparstat
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