how to count processes ?

[Randy Hagedorn]

Hi,

I would like to be able to count the number of oracle processes that are running on our HP-UX system at any given time.

Does anyone have any ideas how to do this?

Thanks,
Randy

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

ps -ef |grep oracle |wc

Rgds...Geoff

[Pete Randall]

I'd use "wc -l" rather than wc.


Pete

[Raj D.]

Hi Randy ,

You can try with this , to count the oracle processes,

# ps -ef | grep ora | sed -n '$='


Cheers,
Raj.

[DCE]

Hello Randy,,

Use ps -ef, and grep for the string you want to count., and pipe the result into wc -l

The most generic for oracle being
ps -ef | grep ora | wc -l

if you want to count specific database processess, substitute the name you are looking for in place of "ora"

Dave

[Bill Hassell]

You can eliminate the grep by letting ps find your processes:

ps - -u oracle

This will report all processes that are being run by the user oracle.

[Randy Hagedorn]

I tried each suggestion and they all worked well.

Thanks again.

Randy