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# 1  
Old 03-08-2013
Problem with nmon, actual CPU usage per process
Hi all,

I am currently having trouble to get nmon to print me the actual CPU usage for an interval for a process.
According to the manual, something like
Code:
# time nmon -t -C cron -s 5 -c 2 -F outfile

real    0m0.98s
user    0m0.03s
sys     0m0.04s

should print out at least the process information about cron for an interval of 2 x 5 seconds.
I tried it without specifying which process (without -C) and other parameters, but no chance. I get the very general information about everyhting else in the output, but nothing about any processes.
Also what I do not understand is, why it always runs through in much less time than I specified with -s and -c.

I am currently on AIX 6100-06-05-1115, and I am not root. Though when I call nmon to be in it's online mode and press "t", I get the top view as non-root user.

Any help is welcome. Alternatives to get the current CPU usage for a process over a specified interval is welcome.
I also tried to get the information with pprof but it seems it's showing like ps some values (ACCT_TIME) which are not working for me at all, as this seems to be the usage over time since the process was started, which is not what I am looking for. I also checked tprof, but as it looks it only works for processes that are started with it, not for processes which are already running.

In the IBM DeveloperWorks Wiki I found Nigel Griffiths' entry for a C-program to get the process information (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wi.../wikiptype/ryo)
He states that you have to take at least 2 measures and calculate the difference (I guess you have to bring this into relation with other processes etc. too, since the values I got did not tell me much).
I am looking for an easier way if any.


Thanks in forward!
# 2  
Old 03-08-2013
AIX nmon is not open source nmon -- where did you get examples?
See bottom of page first url: nmon for Linux | Main / HomePage

developerWorks: Wikis - Systems - nmon

developerWorks: Wikis - Systems - nmon Manual
# 3  
Old 03-09-2013
I was only looking for the IBM pages. There are several examples that use switches I used.
# 4  
Old 03-11-2013
Well, for starters, 'time' is just a distraction, timing nmon and producing that printout.

After that:
  1. the -t is for top processes,
  2. -C is CPU utilization for many CPUs where graph does not fit,
  3. cron seems like an orphan value.
  4. -s is not a listed option,
  5. -c does not take a value and
  6. -F is not a listed option.
# 5  
Old 03-11-2013
Hi zaxxon,

NMON does not seem to work properly with the process option "-C" and recording mode "-f". It only shows the TOP processes.

If you specify a recording option "-f", the nmon process goes to background (init) and your command "time nmon -t -C cron -s 5 -c 2 -F outfile" returns immediately Smilie

The tprof command should work:

Code:
tprof -x sleep 15
grep "cron" sleep.prof

Code:
/usr/sbin/cron                            3   0.29   0.29   0.00   0.00   0.00
/usr/sbin/cron        7209028 12386355   0.12   0.12   0.00   0.00   0.00
/usr/sbin/cron        5111970 12845245   0.12   0.12   0.00   0.00   0.00
/usr/sbin/cron       12714162 17825889   0.06   0.06   0.00   0.00   0.00

Code:
Configuration information
=========================
System: AIX 7.1 Node: sradvu002 Machine: 00F6C66C4C00
Tprof command was:
    tprof -x sleep 15
Trace command was:
    /usr/bin/trace -ad -M -L 1073741312 -T 500000 -j 00A,001,002,003,38F,005,006,134,210,139,5A2,5A5,465,234,5D8, -o -
Total Samples = 1704
Traced Time = 15.01s (out of a total execution time of 15.01s)
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Process                                Freq  Total Kernel   User Shared  Other
=======                                ====  ===== ======   ==== ======  =====
wait                                     16  98.00  98.00   0.00   0.00   0.00
/usr/bin/perl                             3   0.76   0.23   0.00   0.53   0.00
/usr/sbin/cron                            3   0.29   0.29   0.00   0.00   0.00
/usr/sbin/syncd                           1   0.18   0.18   0.00   0.00   0.00
/usr/bin/ksh                              1   0.12   0.12   0.00   0.00   0.00
/usr/bin/sh                               2   0.12   0.06   0.06   0.00   0.00
/usr/bin/grep                             2   0.12   0.12   0.00   0.00   0.00
/usr/bin/sleep                            1   0.06   0.06   0.00   0.00   0.00
/usr/bin/tprof                            1   0.06   0.06   0.00   0.00   0.00
/usr/bin/hostname                         1   0.06   0.06   0.00   0.00   0.00
/usr/bin/trcstop                          1   0.06   0.00   0.00   0.06   0.00
/usr/bin/basename                         1   0.06   0.06   0.00   0.00   0.00
/usr/bin/printf                           1   0.06   0.06   0.00   0.00   0.00
/usr/bin/cut                              1   0.06   0.06   0.00   0.00   0.00
=======                                ====  ===== ======   ==== ======  =====
Total                                    35 100.00  99.35   0.06   0.59   0.00

.....SNIP....

# 6  
Old 03-12-2013
@DGPickett

Thanks, but the options I used are valid switches I get displayed when I issue an nmon -h or if I check the man page, as well in the documentation in the IBM Wiki.

@-=Xray=-
Thanks, but tprof is for monitoring a program that you start, like sleep. I have processes that are running already and I have to check them for let's say an interval of 10 seconds and have to get their actual CPU usage for exactly this interval.
I don't want it since the process is alive (that would be regular ps) nor do I have the option to start a program.
For the explanation of -f together with -c and -s for nmon it seems to be a pity that this option is valid as it looks to me, that the output file is being written and does not get any addition 5 or 10 seconds later.
But I got your point and I think I have tried that already. I will have another look into it, but iirc, the values I got back were not that what I was looking for.


The background of all this is that I am about to write a plugin for Nagios which shall just capture the the actual CPU usage of the specified interval for a process.
Those plugins I have found do usually issue a ps and work with values that are the average since the process came to life.
When this is several days and you currently have a workload peak, you get for example just 12% CPU usage back while it is actually 77%.
So this approach is in my eyes "useless".

Maybe I explained it better now. If you have any other ideas, let me know. Thanks a lot so far for your efforts both.
Last edited by zaxxon; 03-12-2013 at 07:25 AM..
# 7  
Old 03-12-2013
hmm,

I run the "tprof" with my personal userid and saw in the output all processes currently running.
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