topic Re: %CPU without using the top in Operating System - HP-UX

%CPU without using the top

Madhu Sudhan_1 — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 06:17:02 GMT

Friends,
I have a requirement of not using top command and to generate similar output (what top gives).
Iam primarily looking for an alternate command like sar. PID, %CPU, TIME, USERNAME fields. sar -u gives me global statistics. Which is not I wanted.

I have done my homework of referring man pages of sar. I haven't found any flags that will help me.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Allen

Re: %CPU without using the top

Stefan Farrelly — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 06:27:33 GMT

You could use a freeware tool like truespeed;

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/truespeed-0.1.0/

Or you can use HP's own glance, it has options like -adviser_only -syntax which allow you to display a one page list of cpu users to stdout(like top).

Re: %CPU without using the top

James Beamish-White — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 06:29:08 GMT

Have you hit the man pages of vmstat?

And just a FYI, you know you can use top -f to pipe the output to a file?

Cheers!
James

Re: %CPU without using the top

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 06:35:18 GMT

Hi
Have a look at vmstat -n .

Paula

Re: %CPU without using the top

Stefan Farrelly — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 06:48:02 GMT

Heres an even better tool for doing this!

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/yamm-2.6.0/

Re: %CPU without using the top

benoit Bruckert — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:21:48 GMT

Hi,
I'm a user of vmstat,
this for a global load :
#vmstat | tail -n 1 | awk ' { print "user :"$16" sys:"$17" idle:"$18 }'
Man vmstat for the details and options.
If you want a deteil for user, this the simple ps command, with proper options you will get %cpu, TIMe, for each process, then for each user..

hope that help
Benoit

Re: %CPU without using the top

Chris Wilshaw — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:03:47 GMT

You could also try

UNIX95= ps -e -opid,pcpu,time,user,args

This will give the pid, %cpu, execution time, userid and command with aarguments

You can then sort this by piping it through

sort -rnk2

which will give the processes in order of $cpu used.

If you wish to use only a subset of processes then the normal flags (-u etc) for the ps command can be used.

Chris

Re: %CPU without using the top

Steve Steel — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:41:09 GMT

Hi

there are some goo dsolutions here but top with -f is till simplest

ex

top -d 1 -s 1 -n 100 -f /tmp/top

It is there

Steve Steel

Re: %CPU without using the top

Fragon — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 09:50:21 GMT

How about glance plus? It's in HP Application CD, trial version for 60 days only.

-Gerald-

Re: %CPU without using the top

Madhu Sudhan_1 — Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:26:17 GMT

This problem is solved. Thank you Chris.

Thanks,
Allen