Originally posted by: Santosh1202

Sometimes I am getting error code 65280 while executing lsdev -Cc processor command in perl script. If I execute the same command through CLI, it is working fine.
I want to get the number of physical processors available on the machine. I would appreciate your help if you suggest any alternate command.
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Originally posted by: drajarsh

Try

1. prtconf | grep proc

• Rajarshi

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Originally posted by: Santosh1202

Thanks for your response. but, prtconf takes too long to respond.

One more thing even 'lscfg -vp | grep proc' also returns 65280 few times. From AIX experts I would like to know any reason behind this error code.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

since it works fine from the shell you better ask the perl experts
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Originally posted by: Santosh1202

There is no issue in perl code. This error occurs only when command getting executed from a daemon. lsdev -P works fine but not lsdev -C. Does lsdev -C/lscfg have any association/relation with terminal(tty).(Just guessing, because frustrated with this issue)
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Originally posted by: shargus

Other commands you can try:

lparstat (also works on stand-alone servers)
mpstat
smtctl
vmstat
iostat
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