Capacity usage per user

[Johan Barelds]

Hi all,

We are investigating performance issue on our HP-UX server. i got a lot of info from sar but i would like to collect data per user base. The idea behind it is to make a top-10 of heavy users. Does someone know how this can be accomplished? (and i don't mean using top, because i want to do it with a certain interval in the background).

Thanks for your idea's!

Grz. Johan

[Stephen Keane]

glance ?

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

You can use this for memory:

# cat usermem
#!/bin/ksh
# usermem - display memory claimed by a user
#
if [ $# -lt 1 -o \( $# -gt 1 -a $# -lt 4 \) ]
then
echo "Usage:"
echo "usermem \"userid\""
echo "Example:"
echo "usermem gwild"
exit 1
fi
echo " "

USER=$1
t=0
for j in `UNIX95= ps -e -o vsz=Kbytes -o ruser -o pid,args=Command-Line | sort -rnk1 | grep -v Kbytes | grep $USER | awk '{print $1}'`
do
t=`expr $t + $j`
done
echo "\nMemory claimed by $USER: $t Kbytes.\n"


Rgds...Geoff

[TwoProc]

Well, there's top or glance - but you probably will want to make the most of what's being automatically collected for you (unless you turned it off) via the mwa agent (measureware). But, you may want to consider HP's product called PerfView.

However, you can consider top and sar commands. I often use top for information b/c it can be run in non-interactive mode - just as you're asking. Top can be spooled to a file, which you can cut the top off with the "head" command. Build a file or database with the ensuing information and generate output.

Also, look at the HPUX porting archive, I think there are some tools similar to what you're asking for - just do a search on google for "HPUX Porting Archive" to find the one nearest your location.

That being said - my favorite tool for doing what you're asking is HP's Perfview.

[Johan Barelds]

Ok guys, i am inspired...:-)
Thanks for all your information.
I think i got a pretty good idea how to handle this.

Grz. Johan