run nickel memory not enough

[Fauziah Mahdan]

Hi all.
I face not enaough memory error when run nickel.
From top comamnd the idle is 90%+
and from glance command the memory utility only around 80%.
Why and what to do?
I run the nickel during lunch hr whereby user is less acessing the server still the same error. FYI we install Oracle Web server inside this server and the Load balance will escalate user to the next same spec user if there is any overload user process at this server.

Fauziah Mahdan

[RAC_1]

Baiscally, you run a script. You can add "set -vx" in script and check what causes that error. Also how does swap util and memory util look like?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Fauziah,
The various utilities have different ways of calculating memory. You should not be concerned that the disagree in their calculations.

The nickel issue may be complaining about memory, but based on what you say, I doubt it.

You may be missing a pre-requisite or have the environment misconfigured or be missing an OS patch that nickel needs.

Here is a neutral set of tools to check your system performance:
http://www.hpux.ws/system.perf.sh

SEP

[Fauziah Mahdan]

RAC and steven pls give full comand.


Fauziah Mahdan

[Bill Hassell]

Need better details. top reports nothing useful about memory, only CPU usage. Here are some questions:

HP-UX version?
Amount of RAM?
swapinfo -tm
kmtune | grep -e maxd -e dbc_max

Since HP-UX is a virtual memory system, if you have swap space, then using all of RAM is not a problem. nickel runs a number of special commands to poll your system and it is likely that one of these commands is reporting the problem. Using sh -x nickel may naroow down the program.

[inventsekar_1]

Fauziah,

u asked the full the commands.
in the steven's link itself contains the info.

i write that here.
uname -a > /tmp/HP_info

model >> /tmp/HP_info

uptime >> /tmp/HP_info

swlist -l bundle >> /tmp/HP_info

bdf >> /tmp/HP_info

swapinfo -ta >> /tmp/HP_info

cat /etc/fstab >> /tmp/HP_info

lvlnboot -v >> /tmp/HP_info

vgdisplay -v >> /tmp/HP_info

lanscan >> /tmp/HP_info

ioscan -fn >> /tmp/HP_info

cat /etc/inittab >> /tmp/HP_info

dmesg >> /tmp/HP_info

crontab -l >> /tmp/HP_info

swlist -l fileset >> /tmp/HP_info

/usr/bin/top -f /tmp/HP_perf_info

cat /stand/system >> /tmp/HP_perf_info

nohup sar -qM 1 600 > /tmp/HP_perf_info.report &

nohup sar -uM 1 600 > /tmp/HP_perf_info.cpu &

nohup sar -b 1 600 > /tmp/HP_perf_info.buffer &

nohup sar -d 1 600 > /tmp/HP_perf_info.disk &

nohup sar -w 1 600 > /tmp/HP_perf_info.swap &

nohup sar -v 1 600 > /tmp/HP_perf_info.inode &

sysdef >> /tmp/HP_perf_info

[Fauziah Mahdan]

Thanks all,
I did not remember how the case going on. Sorry for not updating the conclusion. Anyway your help is much appreciated.


Fauziah