[hobbit] format for CPU data?

Rich Smrcina rsmrcina at wi.rr.com
Thu Oct 19 18:20:40 CEST 2006


The TTY idea makes alot of sense.  Hopefully chasing down the last 
command isn't too much work (for the CPU that is), the one thing you 
don't want is for your network service monitoring to become a 
performance problem... :)

Kern, Thomas wrote:
> I will look at reworking the PROCS data to match 'ps -ef'. The
> user/procs count used to be obtained by bigbrother from the messages in
> the CPU test.
> 
> CMD is irrelevant for most of the PROCS (service virtual machines) on
> z/VM, but for a real user, we could get the last command buffer.
> 
> TTY could be filled in with the LUNAME, terminal device number or 'DISC'
> to be meaningful.
> 
> /Thomas Kern
> /301-903-2211 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:rsmrcina at wi.rr.com] 
>> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:56 AM
>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>> Subject: Re: [hobbit] format for CPU data?
>>
>>
>> Then for procs you may need to present that data is 'ps -ef' format:
>>
>> UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
>> root         1     0  0 Oct18 ?        00:00:01 init [5]
>> root         2     1  0 Oct18 ?        00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
>> root         3     1  0 Oct18 ?        00:00:00 [events/0]
>> root         4     1  0 Oct18 ?        00:00:00 [khelper]
>> root         9     1  0 Oct18 ?        00:00:00 [kthread]
>> root        19     9  0 Oct18 ?        00:00:08 [kacpid]
>> root       116     9  0 Oct18 ?        00:00:00 [kblockd/0]
>> root       156     9  0 Oct18 ?        00:00:00 [pdflush]
>>
>> Some of the data here doesn't really apply to z/VM, but it should be 
>> possible to come up with some sort of value for each column.  UID and 
>> CMD would probably be the same thing, PID can be a counter, 
>> PPID would 
>> be 1, STIME would be the logon date or time, TTY is not relevant and 
>> TIME would be the CPUTime.
>>
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