How can I guess the active number of threads in the system

[fario]

I'm trying to make a glance adviser script to determine the number of active threads. I'm using the thread_active_thread metric; but it gives me an error.

How could I obtain the active number of threads in my system (HPUX 11.0)?

Thanks in advance.

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,
Hope this thread will help you.

http://bizforums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x97d728e43106d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[harry d brown jr]

Are you running glance version C.03.55 or higher? Have you checked to see if you needed any patches?

live free or die
harry

[Brent Barton · Accepted solution]

Here is a script that I use that utilizes q4 to report the number of kernel threads that are being used. Maybe this will help :

#!/usr/bin/ksh
/usr/contrib/bin/q4pxdb /stand/vmunix
sleep 3
/usr/contrib/bin/q4 -N /stand/vmunix /dev/mem <<-EOF
load struct kthread from kthread max nkthread
keep kt_stat != 0
quit
EOF
~

[Thomas M. Williams_1]

Hopefully this isn't a stupid ?. What are the benefits of knowing this information?

[Tom Danzig]

You could use sar -v also:

14:00:46 text-sz ov proc-sz ov inod-sz ov file-sz ov
14:00:50 N/A N/A 620/1264 0 7801/12160
0 6512/21018 0

Here there are 620 active process.