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Omer_69115's avatar
Omer_69115
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Oct 19, 2010

Getting CPU Util with TOP command equal to tmstat

just running the command top -n 1 | grep tmm | awk 'BEGIN{sum=0};{print sum+=$9}' | tail -1       and it is the same as tmstat  
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hoolio's avatar
hoolio
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Oct 19, 2010
Hi Omer,

Do you have a question about this? top in 9.4+ seems to show higher CPU usage than tmstat (or an SNMP OID for CPU usage). I've asked why this is and will try to report back if I find anything useful. 


 top -n1
top - 14:01:08 up 4 days, 17:26,  1 user,  load average: 0.54, 0.42, 0.43
Tasks: 208 total,   2 running, 205 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s):  6.0%us,  2.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 91.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   8187068k total,  7198380k used,   988688k free,   285984k buffers
Swap:  1048312k total,        0k used,  1048312k free,  1205724k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
10557 root      RT   0 1274m  28m  23m S  7.8  0.4   3:53.55 tmm
10554 root      RT   0 1274m  28m  23m S  5.9  0.4   4:21.62 tmm
10555 root      RT   0 1274m  28m  23m S  5.9  0.4   3:55.98 tmm
10556 root      RT   0 1274m  28m  23m S  5.9  0.4   3:57.16 tmm

=================================================================================================================

 snmpwalk -v2c -c public localhost sysGlobalTmmStatTmUsageRatio5s
F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB::sysGlobalTmmStatTmUsageRatio5s.0 = Gauge32: 3

=================================================================================================================

 CPU:   3% busy     1% idle   95% sleep                                                  Tue Oct 19 14:00:52 2010

       Memory Allocated                                                        Packets              54,610 Polls
   27,956,840 / 1,222,639,616                                           New Flows   Old Flows
  [  .  :  .  |  .  :  .  ]                                                     0           0

 Memory Count Object

  103MB   2-- (total)
   41MB    -- mco db (variable)
    6MB    -- ifnet (variable)
    6MB    -- tcl (variable)

Aaron