installation of GNU top

[Andrew S. Chipalyuk]

Hello!

I had tried the GNU top (top-3.6.1) depot package (HP-UX 11i v3). In during porcess of installation i got the ERROR messages:

ERROR: Unknown owner and/or group for file "/usr/local/bin/top". SUID and/or SGID bit was not set.

After installation i tried to execute /usr/local/bin/top:

# /usr/local/bin/top
/dev/kmem: reading mpid: Bad address

I saw:

# ls -l /dev/kmem
crw-r----- 1 bin sys 3 0x000001 Mar 13 2007 /dev/kmem
# ls -l /usr/local/bin/top
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 141588 Oct 19 17:10 /usr/local/bin/top

I changed mode of file:

# chmod 2755 /usr/local/bin/top

And i executed:

# /usr/local/bin/top
/dev/kmem: reading mpid: Bad address

The ERROR stayed.
How i can remove cause of ERROR? Why did ERROR happen during installation process?

[Dennis Handly]

Why is GNU top better than HP's?

>changed mode of file:
# chmod 2755 /usr/local/bin/top

This sets the SGUI. You need chmod u+s,g-s.
Compare to /usr/bin/top.

[Andrew S. Chipalyuk]

>> Why is GNU top better than HP's?

# dmesg| grep Physical
Physical: 8368188 Kbytes, lockable: 6099064 Kbytes, available: 6927468 Kbytes

i.e. the physical memory is 8368188 Kbytes, whereas /usr/bin/top shows:

Memory: 238668K (78820K) real, 463036K (161672K) virtual, 6481420K free Page# 1/5

>>Compare to /usr/bin/top.

# ls -l /usr/bin/top
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 145176 Feb 16 2007 /usr/bin/top

[Dennis Handly]

>the physical memory is 8368188 Kbytes

You can also get this from SAM.

>-r-xr-xr-x bin ... /usr/bin/top

It appears your foreign devil top wants to use SUID to do its work. Is this something you trust?
Did you try "chmod u+s,g-s"?

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

you can also try glance.

e.g.

SRV2:home/yogeeraj>glance -m
..
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MEMORY REPORT Users= 2
Event Current Cumulative Current Rate Cum Rate High Rate
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Page Faults 58 58 82.8 82.8 82.8
Page In 24 24 34.2 34.2 34.2
Page Out 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
KB Paged In 0kb 0kb 0.0 0.0 0.0
KB Paged Out 0kb 0kb 0.0 0.0 0.0
Reactivations 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Deactivations 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
KB Deactivated 0kb 0kb 0.0 0.0 0.0
VM Reads 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
VM Writes 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Total VM : 1.20gb Sys Mem : 728.8mb User Mem: 450.3mb Phys Mem: 8.00gb


kind regards
yogeeraj

[Andrew S. Chipalyuk]

>>you can also try glance.

Is it proprietary/commercial software?

[Andrew S. Chipalyuk]

>>You can also get this from SAM

I havn't found this in my SMH (11i v3).

>>It appears your foreign devil top wants to use SUID to do its work. Is this something you trust?

I need to watch using of physical memory. :)

>>Did you try "chmod u+s,g-s"?

# chmod u+s,g-s /usr/local/bin/top; ls -l /usr/local/bin/top
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root sys 141588 Oct 19 17:10 /usr/local/bin/top

And:

# /usr/local/bin/top
/dev/kmem: reading mpid: Bad address

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi again,

which version of HP-UX are you running? What type of installation is this?

revert

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Dennis Handly]

>>you can also try glance.

>Is it proprietary/commercial software?

Yes. There is a trial version of glance with HP-UX.

>I haven't found this in my SMH (11i v3).

Under SAM it was under Performance.

>-rwsr-xr-x 1 root sys /usr/local/bin/top
># /usr/local/bin/top
/dev/kmem: reading mpid: Bad address

Ok, it doesn't work anyway.

[Andrew S. Chipalyuk]

>>which version of HP-UX are you running? What type of installation is this?

# uname -a
HP-UX ... B.11.31 U ia64 2021222857 unlimited-user license
#
# model
ia64 hp server rx2660
#
# machinfo
...
OS info:
...
Release: HP-UX B.11.31
Version: U (unlimited-user license)
Machine: ia64
...
vmunix _release_version:
@(#) $Revision: vmunix: B.11.31_LR FLAVOR=perf