lparstat command on RHEL8 ppc64le showing incorrect values for physc %entc

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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
                                ^    ^
                                |    |

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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