topic Re: kmeminfo -V shows errors. in Operating System - HP-UX

kmeminfo -V shows errors.

Guy Zelck_1 — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 06:32:52 GMT

Hi Community,

Related to my previous message 'Less memory available than installed' I used the kmeminfo cmd to check memora use. By chance I tried the -V (verbose) option which shows me the following errors :
atcoaicd:/usr/contrib# kmeminfo -V
kmeminfo (3.11)
libp4 (5.17): Opening /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem

Loading symbols from /stand/vmunix

======================================================================
Date: Mon Oct 14 09:29:56 2002

Processing pfdat table (496474 entries)...
Error: 0 sysmap pages but only 2 sysmap_32bit pages and 49637 sysmap_64bit pages
Error: found 131072 system pages but there is only 180711 P_SYS pages!!
Error: freemem is 254468 but there is only 249515 P_FREE pfdat entries!!

How serious or not is this. What does it mean?

Thanks for your insights,
Guy.

Re: kmeminfo -V shows errors.

Stefan Farrelly — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 06:56:02 GMT

I just ran this command on a few of my servers and got the same error on all of them (freemem didnt match P_FREE) - it seems to be a 'feature' of the Q4 routine kmeminfo. I wouldnt worry about it.

Re: kmeminfo -V shows errors.

Dietmar Konermann — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 06:59:14 GMT

Hi, Guy!

Don't worry about these errors... some functions of kmeminfo have problems processing data on live systems. They are simply designed to be used on crash dumps. Especially by using the -V option you make kmeminfo disclose all conditions that are usually suppressed.

Regards...
Dietmar.

Re: kmeminfo -V shows errors.

Dietmar Konermann — Mon, 14 Oct 2002 07:08:43 GMT

BTW, this kmeminfo is not q4's kmeminfo.pl! It is a standalone binary using libp4... which is a LOT faster than any q4 perl script.