topic Re: Memory viewing/mapping program for HPUX? in Operating System - HP-UX

Memory viewing/mapping program for HPUX?

Mike Mayer — Fri, 25 May 2001 19:02:19 GMT

I recall that the SGI IRIX boxes have a very slick graphical utility that shows you how much memory (RAM + swap) all the processes on the system are taking (I don't mean "top"). I've forgotten the name of the utility, but it presents a large stacked bar chart (looks like a Dagwood sandwich). It changes dynamically as things happen on the system. You can also drill-down by clicking on each slice, and you then get a view of one particular process and all the stack/data/text area it's soaking up. You can even drill down further and see activity at the memory address level. Very slick.

Question of course, is whether there's a similar utility available for HPUX. You'd think something like PerfView would have such a beast but I'm not sure it does.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, Mike M.

Re: Memory viewing/mapping program for HPUX?

Patrick Wallek — Fri, 25 May 2001 19:06:08 GMT

Perfview won't really help you in that it will only report on data that has been written to the Measureware data files, so it won't be dynamic real-time.

The closest thing to what you want would probably be Glance, though I don't think the information is displayed in exactly the way you describe. I think Glance would be a good place for you to start though.

Re: Memory viewing/mapping program for HPUX?

Mike Mayer — Fri, 25 May 2001 19:28:59 GMT

Thank you Patrick for that quick response. I'll take a peek at Glance and see what it can do.

Mike

Re: Memory viewing/mapping program for HPUX?

Mladen Despic — Fri, 25 May 2001 19:51:18 GMT

Mike,

You could configure Measureware DSI (data source integration) for Glance data (usually logged by running Glance in adviser_only mode). You can then connect PerfView to your DSI source and view Glance metrics of your choice in PerfView.

Furthermore, if you want to see a "Dagwood sandwich" type of a graph, you could define your own "applications" in /var/opt/perf/parm file and then use "application metrics" of your choice.

For further details, see documentation under /opt/perf/paperdocs. I would also recommend:
http://devresource.hp.com/devresource/Docs/TechPapers/PakPerform.pdf

HTH

Re: Memory viewing/mapping program for HPUX?

Carlos Fernandez Riera — Fri, 25 May 2001 23:58:54 GMT

Glance is an character based application.

gpm ( glance plus manager) is a graphic manager for glance.

You can install a trial from application CD's.