sar

Use the sar command to check the balance of processor usage for multiple processors.

In this following example, two samples are taken every 5 seconds on a twin-processor system that is running at 80% utilization.

# sar -u -P ALL 5 2

AIX aix4prt 0 5 000544144C00    02/09/01

15:29:32 cpu    %usr    %sys    %wio   %idle
15:29:37  0       34      46       0      20
          1       32      47       0      21
          -       33      47       0      20
15:29:42  0       31      48       0      21
          1       35      42       0      22
          -       33      45       0      22

Average   0       32      47       0      20
          1       34      45       0      22
          -       33      46       0      21