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Table 7‑4. CPU Panel Statistics (Continued)
Line Description
%DMD CPU demand in percentage. It represents the average active CPU load in the past minute.
CORE UTIL(%) Percentage of CPU cycles per core when at least one of the PCPUs in this core is unhalted, and its
average over all cores.
This statistic only appears when hyperthreading is enabled.
In batch mode, the correspondening CORE UTIL(%) statistic is displayed for each PCPU. For
example, PCPU 0 and PCPU 1 have the same the CORE UTIL(%) number, and that is the number
for core 0.
You can change the display using single-key commands.
Table 7‑5. CPU Panel Single-Key Commands
Command Description
e Toggles whether CPU statistics are displayed expanded or unexpanded.
The expanded display includes CPU resource utilization statistics broken down by individual worlds
belonging to a resource pool or virtual machine. All percentages for the individual worlds are
percentage of a single physical CPU.
Consider these examples:
n
If the %Used by a resource pool is 30% on a two-way server, the resource pool is utilizing 30
percent of one physical core.
n
If the %Used by a world belonging to a resource pool is 30 percent on a two-way server, that
world is utilizing 30% of one physical core.
U Sorts resource pools, virtual machines, and worlds by the resource pool’s or virtual machine’s %Used
column. This is the default sort order.
R Sorts resource pools, virtual machines, and worlds by the resource pool’s or virtual machine’s %RDY
column.
N Sorts resource pools, virtual machines, and worlds by the GID column.
V Displays virtual machine instances only.
L Changes the displayed length of the NAME column.
CPU Power Panel
The CPU Power panel displays CPU Power utilization statistics.
On the CPU Power panel, statistics are arranged per PCPU. A PCPU is a physical hardware execution
context -- a physical CPU core if hyper-threading is unavailable or disabled, or a logical CPU (LCPU or SMT
thread) if hyper-threading is enabled.
Table 7‑6. CPU Power Panel Statistics
Line Description
Power Usage Current total power usage (in Watts).
Power Cap Total power cap (in Watts).
PSTATE MHZ Clock frequency per state.
%USED Percentage of PCPU nominal frequency used since the last screen update. It is the same as
PCPU USED(%) shown in the CPU Screen.
%UTIL Raw PCPU utilization, that is the percentage of real time that PCPU was not idle. It is the same
as PCPU UTIL(%) shown in the CPU Screen.
%Cx Percentage of time the PCPU spent in C-State 'x'.
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