Re: Memory Monitoring

[naChoZ]

in reply to Memory Monitoring

I'm curious, what is the end result you're try to accomplish? Instead of reinventing the wheel, you could (amongst other possibilities) install the set of nagios plugins. They work on a large number of different platforms. I believe check_vsz (not perl) is their native plugin to monitor what you want, but there's other stuff for nagios people have written, including a fair number of perl scripts.

[steelrose]

Last week I tried the Proc::ProcessTable() module. Unfortunately in its build package, it installs an executable. This is bad, because were not supposed to install executables on our production system.

In the /proc/<pid>/psinfo file, the pr_psargs is an 80 character string that contains the complete command line. The pr_psargv and pr_envp fields are memory addresses that are basically offsets inside the /proc/<pid>/as file (address space).

The reason I need the complete command line are for java apps. Imagine having a classpath and env vars. You can see how quickly your command line grows above the 80 characters. In these cases, doing a grep to kill particular processes can be very dangerous.

Anyway, the /proc/<pid>/as file is only readable by the person who owns the process. /usr/ucb/ps is owned by root and can read anyfile, so it doesn't have a problem.

I really wasn't trying to "Reinvent the wheel" as your post was saying. Just trying to use what we have available and won't cause a problem with the Unix admins.

So I went back to the simpliest way to do it. A pgrep with a /usr/ucb/ps -auxww <pid>. Then I parse out the memory and cpu statistics. Not happy about the solution, but it works...

And now I know more about the internals of Solaris's proc directory :)

Thanks to all the Monks who replied.

[naChoZ]

Unfortunately my sparc is tucked behind a firewall at home and I can't reach it and try this out at the moment. I think the berkely ps in solaris can take a -p option. So you can do something like this to display the cli for a specific pid:

/usr/ucb/ps -o command -p 12345