what files are busy?

[Greg Hall]

Hi,

HPUX v11.11. Is there anything equivalent to AIX's filemon command, to identify busy files?
I have used Glance to identify busy filesystems, and looked at open files per some processes to drill down further, but its a tedious way to find busy files.

thanks, Greg

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Greg:

The simplest, standard command for HP-UX is 'fuser'. See its man pages for more information.

Another tool that you can obtain from the HP-UX porting archives is 'lsof':

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.75/

Regards!

...JRF...

[Sandman!]

Greg,

lsof would be the tool of choice and it has a lot of options for listing busy files. In case you don't have it, download it from http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/

regards!

[Greg Hall]

Hi James and Mr Sandman,

thanks, I'm aware of fuser and lsof. But they kinda presume I know which files are busy or which procs are causing disk activity.
I know there is activity in /usr, (probably entirely legitimate but clients love to blame the OS), and I want to know what files are busy.

thanks anyway.

Greg

[Sandman!]

In that case use the following command to find out what files in /usr are busy...

# lsof /usr

cheers!

[Ted Buis]

fuser -cu /your_file_system_mount_point
e.g. fuser -cu /usr

[B. Hulst]

Hi,

Or you could try monitoring the system with Glance.

This 'extremly enhanced top' program should be able to show you which process is writing where and how much.

Regards,
Bob

[Sยภเl Kย๓คг]

Hi,

lsof should be able to help you rather than fuser -cu

Regards,
Sunil

[Raj D.]

Hi Greg ,

lsof would be a good tool , that can be used to check busy file statics , and can be use with script , to monitor for a period , as filemon does in aix by starting the trace daemon in background.

Here is the link:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.75/


lsof binary can be found here:
http://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/sysutils/lsof/binaries/hpux/

Cheers,
Raj.