Introducing the Memory Monitor

[Steven Protter]

The tool:
http://www.hpuxconsulting.com/mem.mon

The man pages:
http://www.hpuxconsulting.com/mem.mon.manpage.html
http://hpuxconsulting.com/mem.mon.manpage.pdf

The tool supports three OS at this time and should be considered beta code.

Objectives:
1)Find bugs and fix them.
2)Add OS support. If you provide code (use retain format) you get credit on the man page but you are agreeing to test it and provide fixes.
3) Add an output analyzer to go through the output files and present possible candidates to be flagged as memory leakers.

The purpose of the tool is to find processes that have continued memory growth so they can be sent to developers for correction.

The tool has been posted to ITRC forums and is used at my employer.

I post it without warranty or support. I will try and fix problems that are found with it. If you happen to be an NDS employee or customer, you get as much support as you want, but you'll need to contact me through official channels.

This is open source, I consider it a GNU license product. You may freely distribute but you must leave the names in the shell script.

Note also that this is the sole point of release. If you have new code that you want added, you need to provide me a means of conducting quality control testing on it. We're very eager to add OS's and improve Solaris support.

Your thoughts, comments and ideas are welcome as well.

I don't see this as a solution thread, but no promises on points.

:-)

SEP

[whiteknight]

Steven,

I tried once of your tools, it is simple to use, but it will be good to have proper documentation on how to determine if is is a cpu bottleneck, memory leak etc based on the data we collected.

my 2 cents

WK
please assign points ;-)

[Steven Protter]

whiteknight,

Two of the three links are documentation.

Is there a specific problem with the documentation? Finding your question(s) a little puzzling.

BTW, I have a better than 100% point assignment ratio. I need not be reminded to assign points.

Regards,

SEP