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тАО08-14-2006 07:54 PM
тАО08-14-2006 07:54 PM
1. Noticed that the I/O count keeps increasing and is there a limit on this count ?
2. I have a process name : TCPIP$SNMP_1 with a high number , so how do i reset this , if it is a concern.
3. Is there a max PID ? when it reaches max, what happens ?
Thanks,
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тАО08-14-2006 08:06 PM
тАО08-14-2006 08:06 PM
Re: show system - I/O , PID
the I/O count represents the number of IOs issued by that process during it's lifetime in the system. There is no limit to this count, if the numbers get real big, they may overflow the field width in the display and show up as '*********'.
You cannot reset the IO count of a process, except by stopping that process and starting a new process to do the work, e.g. in case of SNMP, stopping and starting the SNMP service.
The PID is just a number, which is garanteed to be unique on the local system. It consists of an index into the process vector and a sequence number. The process vector size is limited by the system parameter MAXPROCESSCNT and determines the maximum number of processes active at any time in the system. If all process entry slots are occupied, you cannot create another process and get an error message SS$_NOSLOT.
Volker.
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тАО08-14-2006 09:00 PM
тАО08-14-2006 09:00 PM
Re: show system - I/O , PID
So how do I stop and restart the process (in the case of TCPIP$SNMP_1)?
How to determine if any of the processes hang ?
Thx again ;)
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тАО08-14-2006 09:06 PM
тАО08-14-2006 09:06 PM
Re: show system - I/O , PID
In the case of SNMP its TCPIP$SNMP_SHUTDOWN.COM and TCPIP$SNMP_STARUP.COM.
Hung processes often have 'strange' process states, e.g. RWxxx (resource wait...) for an extended period of time.
regards Kalle
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тАО08-14-2006 09:08 PM
тАО08-14-2006 09:08 PM
SolutionAny problems with SNMP ? You could be using the SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP$
To determine, if a process is hung, is much more complicated. You can at least tell, that it does not do anything, if none of it's counters in SHOW SYSTEM/PROC=xxx does increase.
You would then need to execute some command, which would normally be serviced by that process. If that command hangs or returns some kind of timeout error, you could conclude, that the process is actually hung.
There are also some process states (RWxxx), which indicate some kind of temporary or long-lasting resource wait problem for a process.
Are these questions for your interest only or are you trying to diagnose and solve a real problem ?
Volker.
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тАО08-14-2006 09:29 PM
тАО08-14-2006 09:29 PM
Re: show system - I/O , PID
As someone new to OpenVMS, these are good questions.
As Volker noted, the IO Count is an accounting of all the IO operations for a process. It will keep increasing, but you are unlikely to reach a limit (the count is stored as an unsigned, 32-bit number -- aka longword, thus the maximum value is on the order of 2**32, 4G).
Put in perspective, if a process is executing a consistent average of 1,000 IO operations/second, it would take 46 days of continuous operation before overflow was a serious concern (at lower IO rates, the duration is accordingly smaller, at 100 IO operations/second, it is approximately 460 days).
I would not rate this as a concern, although (tongue in cheek) as increasing hardware reliability increases the uptimes of individual OpenVMS instances, perhaps it might cause strange accounting log entries (e.g., total IO count << than either Direct or Buffered IO count).
The Process ID will, sooner or later, recycle. But that will take a VERY long time. I am actually not sure if anybody has observed a Process ID recycle occur in nature, even with the extended cluster uptimes that are common with OpenVMS.
- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com
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тАО08-14-2006 10:16 PM
тАО08-14-2006 10:16 PM
Re: show system - I/O , PID
In a cluster, PID recycles are common if you have a high process creation rate and only 100 or so free process slots. I've seen it happen,moreso when kernel threads came along.
The PID is an encoded value whose interpretation is reserved to the OS. Don't read anything into the magnitude of the PID, all you can count on is that two concurrently existing processes will never have the same PID.
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тАО08-14-2006 10:39 PM
тАО08-14-2006 10:39 PM
Re: show system - I/O , PID
Regards
John.
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тАО08-14-2006 11:53 PM
тАО08-14-2006 11:53 PM
Re: show system - I/O , PID
I was concerned on I/O count keeps going up and don't know if i should keep a tab on them. As I was caught previously with the version 32767 problem before , just to be sure.
Thanks to all of you who took time to answer my questions. Thx ;)
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