PRM with oracle 8.1.7

[Mike Barron_3]

I have a question. I loaded PRM to manage CPU usage with my 4 databases running on my 7410. I created 4 groups and allocated 20% for each group and 20% for the others group. Isn't PRM suppossed to put each application in it's respective group when they run? below is an example of my /etc/prmconf file:

#
# Group/CPU records
#
CCPPRD1:5:20::
CCPTST:3:20::
HCXDEV:2:20::
OTHERS:1:20::
SYNCREP2:4:20::
#
# Memory records
#
#
# Application records
#
/u13/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin::::HCXDEV,ora*hcxdev
/u13/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin::::CCPTST,ora*ccptst
/u15/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin::::CCPPRD1,ora*ccpprd1
/u13/oracle/product/8.1.7/bin::::SYNCREP2,ora*syncrep2
#
# Disk bandwidth records
#
#
# User records
#
adm::::OTHERS
bin::::OTHERS
daemon::::OTHERS
hpdb::::OTHERS
lp::::OTHERS
nobody::::OTHERS
nuucp::::OTHERS
oracle::::OTHERS,CCPPRD1,CCPTST,HCXDEV,SYNCREP2
root::::(PRM_SYS)
smbnull::::OTHERS
sys::::OTHERS
uucp::::OTHERS
webadmin::::OTHERS
www::::OTHERS

Below is an example output of prmmonitor:

Thu Jan 29 09:56:22 2004 Sample: 1 second
CPU scheduler state: Enabled
CPU CPU
PRM Group PRMID Entitlement Used
____________________________________________________________
OTHERS 1 20.00% 4.92%
HCXDEV 2 20.00% 0.00%
CCPTST 3 20.00% 0.00%
SYNCREP2 4 20.00% 0.00%
CCPPRD1 5 20.00% 0.00%


Granted the box isn't doing much, but like I said earlier isn't each app suppossed to run in ots respective group?

[melvyn burnard]

Few questions here.
1) have you patched the system as per PRM notes, as well as PRM itself?
2) Have you enabled the applicatyion manager?
3) did you check with ps -Pef to chek the PRM ID ?


Just a few thoughts, but I suspect question 2 is th emost probable cause.