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run &quot;smitty wlm&quot; and group your polite interactive processes in guaranteed io/cpu/mem classes<br />
then your runaway process will do no harm.
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Thanks alot sjm_ee. I had to do a minor adjustment though because it mailed me every minute.
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Imagine popular situation for AIX - io wait takes 99% of CPU time, system load is 100 or so....<br />

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Gheist you're right and I get your point. I have seen situations where that was the case. &nbsp;I just needed a trigger script. As the script above only seems to trigger correct on single core systems I modified it use a sar idle average instead.
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I guess you need Workload Manager. It basically keeps system interactive even under influence of runaway process(es).<br />
I have been running replacement AIX database system with load average around 100 while it still was responsible enough for people using terminals for some month while *real* production system ships.<br />
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On normal systems renicing or stopping runaway proc is best automated solution.<br />
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You actually have to look for &quot;uptime&quot; measured load average and estimate bad processes
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I'm looking for a script that uses vmstat from cron on like a minute interval to capture processes that utilize 95%+ cpu load. I then need the minute outputs processed so that if any process is consuming more then 95% cpu time for over a period of let's say 10 minutes, only then a single warning email gets sent to me about those processes. <br />
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Thanks in advance. 
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I'm looking for a script that uses vmstat from cron on like a minute interval to capture processes that utilize 95%+ cpu load. I then need the minute outputs processed so that if any process is consuming more then 95% cpu time for over a period of let's say 10 minutes, only then a single warning email gets sent to me about those processes. 

Thanks in advance. 

AIX cpu alarm monitor script.

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