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What is the difference between Topas and "ps gv"

  • 1.  What is the difference between Topas and "ps gv"

    Posted Sun August 26, 2012 02:42 PM

    Originally posted by: erjainpriyank13


    Hello Forum,
    I am struggling with my environment. I am having AIX Boxes in my production.

    When I firing topas; my program shows me 70-80% CPU Utilization.
    At the same time if I do "ps gv" it shows me only 10%.
    Can anyone please suggest me which one is correct??
    I am doubting if topas shows me right.

    Please suggest if there exists any other option then topas which shows me real time CPU utilization for a process.
    Thanks
    Priyank Jain
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  • 2.  Re: What is the difference between Topas and "ps gv"

    Posted Mon August 27, 2012 07:33 AM

    Originally posted by: ostost


    According to the man page the %CPU column in ps gv shows the CPU time used since process started divided by the elapsed since the process started. So it's not the same like current CPU utilzation that topas is displaying.
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  • 3.  Re: What is the difference between Topas and "ps gv"

    Posted Tue September 04, 2012 04:49 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    erjainpriyank13 wrote:
    Please suggest if there exists any other option then topas which shows me real time CPU utilization for a process.

    I'm also interested in an answer for this part. I need such a command for our monitoring tool "BMC Patrol"
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