Performance monitoring issue with LDOMs?

Question

I am trying to monitor the IO statistics within our LDOMs and I'm running into some strange behavior. The IO that I'm seeing inside the LDOM itself using iostat is off by an incredibly wide margin from the IO that the primary LDOM is showing. Below is an example. I'm running iostat -xnz 5 100 inside the LDOM and in the primary LDOM. I put one of the iterations of that that ran at the same time inside and out. For this particular instance, we're seeing ~60 r/s and ~110 w/s inside. In the primary LDOM we're seeing ~700 r/s and 150 w/s.
Can anyone help explain this disparity?
INSIDE:
extended device statistics
r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device
4.8 0.2 233.7 1.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.6 0 1 c0d0
32.4 51.0 2764.4 4375.1 0.0 0.5 0.0 6.1 0 30 c0d1
30.4 58.2 2933.9 4351.9 0.0 0.5 0.0 5.7 0 32 c0d2
OUTSIDE:
r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device
106.8 21.4 1687.9 2605.6 0.0 0.2 0.0 1.6 0 12 c2t50060482D53039B9d87
134.6 23.2 2089.2 2838.3 0.0 0.3 0.0 1.7 0 15 c2t50060482D53039B9d86
119.4 22.6 1833.1 2700.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 1.6 0 13 c2t50060482D53039B9d85
118.0 28.2 1871.4 3119.8 0.0 0.3 0.0 1.8 0 14 c3t50060482D53039B6d87
133.2 26.2 1756.5 2886.3 0.0 0.2 0.0 1.5 0 13 c3t50060482D53039B6d86
121.8 26.8 1755.0 3045.4 0.0 0.3 0.0 1.7 0 15 c3t50060482D53039B6d85
Configuration:
We have 3 luns presented from a DMX to the physical server. I'm running ZFS inside and outside. We created a pool on the primary ldom and then create 3 volumes. Those volumes are seen by the host as virtual disks. Those disks are then put in 2 separate pools within the LDOM.
Edited by: user13470247 on Apr 4, 2011 2:28 PM

Answer 1

When you are going to record, the Recording panel pops up (with the level meter, etc). Make sure that, in the Monitor section, the correct soundcard is selected and the "Mute Project" button is not selected. That should solve it.
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