topic How to display global counters? in Operating System - HP-UX

How to display global counters?

mt_1299 — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:11:56 GMT

Researching swap/paging memory -- familiar with glance swap screen and swapinfo.

Is there an easy way to fine the values of lotsfree_pct and desfree_pct parameters?

Similar question for global counters like swapspc_max and swapspc_cnt.

I realize some of these values are reflected in the output of swapinfo but wonder if they are accessible directly using adb or another mechanism.

Thanks.

Re: How to display global counters?

donna hofmeister — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:41:35 GMT

both of the swap counters are part of the header file /usr/include/sys/pstat/vm_pstat_body.h

this manual shows source for how to get pstat information. if you're ambitious you should be able to adapt it.

i hope that's what you're asking...

Re: How to display global counters?

mt_1299 — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:18:45 GMT

Was just curious if there was a single command or if scripting was required.

Thanks.

Re: How to display global counters?

Dennis Handly — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:37:28 GMT

>Was just curious if there was a single command or if scripting was required.

Unless perl provides access to pstat(2) details, you'll have to write a C/C++ program.

Re: How to display global counters?

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:56:22 GMT

@Dennis Handly wrote:
>Was just curious if there was a single command or if scripting was required.

Unless perl provides access to pstat(2) details, you'll have to write a C/C++ program.

HI:

It seems that ca. 11.0 there was a Perl module called HPUX::Pstat that formed/began the basis for getting information from pstat() in Perl. It also seems that the module has not been updated since 2003 :-(

Regards!

...JRF...