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about the command dmesg

forest — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 13:39:59 GMT

when I enter dmesg command to see the memory condition : the output information are :
side_if_start(): NOT IMPLEMENTED , scsi cmd :0x4d
could you kindly tell me how to deal with it ?

Re: about the command dmesg

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 13:53:01 GMT

Hi:

The error message you are seeing is really not a problem but there is a disk driver patch to resolve it:
PHKL_24281 (10.20) or PHKL_24282 (11.0). In any event, dmesg is working normally and will only display boot messages like memory until the buffer fills. Once full, the buffer is overwritten.

A much beter way is to query the kernel directly:

for 10.20 (Memory in MBytes)
echo "physmem/D "| adb -k /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem | tail -1 | awk '{print $2/256} '

for 11.x (Memory in Mbytes)

echo "phys_mem_pages/D "| adb -k /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem | tail -1 | awk '{print $2/256} '

Regards, Clay

Re: about the command dmesg

forest — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 05:13:51 GMT

Hi,dear Clay
After add the PHKL_24281 , the display is normal now, I still have two question , first : this patch increase the system buffer parameters?
second : you said :"for 10.20 (Memory in MBytes)
echo "physmem/D "| adb -k /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem | tail -1 | awk '{print $2/256} '" I am a newcomer to the HP-UX , and I don't understand the meaning of these words , could you kindly explain for me , and where should I add these words ?