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Old 07-18-2011
Understanding top in HP-UX
Understanding top and swapinfo command HP-UX

Hi!I am new to HP-UX having used Linux for several years.When I want to check server performance,I use the top and swapinfo command.In Linux,the results of top were quite easy to understand as it would clearly state the amount of free and used physical and virtual memory.For HP-UX,I am not so sure.If I check the top result below

Code:
$ top
System: aw1bdvrs                                      Mon Jul 18 08:03:51 2011
Load averages: 0.04, 0.05, 0.06
516 processes: 472 sleeping, 44 running
Cpu states:
CPU   LOAD   USER   NICE    SYS   IDLE  BLOCK  SWAIT   INTR   SSYS
 0    0.03   7.5%   0.0%   1.0%  91.5%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%
 2    0.04   1.0%   0.0%   3.2%  95.8%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%
 4    0.05   7.1%   0.0%   4.6%  88.3%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%
 6    0.02   0.0%   0.0%   0.0% 100.0%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%
 8    0.07   2.0%   0.0%   2.8%  95.2%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%
10    0.04   2.8%   0.0%   1.0%  96.2%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%
12    0.04   4.8%   0.0%   1.4%  93.8%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%
14    0.07   6.3%   0.0%   1.0%  92.7%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%
---   ----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
avg   0.04   4.0%   0.0%   1.8%  94.2%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%   0.0%

System Page Size: 4Kbytes
Memory: 13282568K (1729912K) real, 57718252K (5759048K) virtual, 23845192K free
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CPU TTY  PID USERNAME PRI NI   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME %WCPU  %CPU COMMAND
 2   ? 27474 oracle   154 20 52451M  8192K sleep    1:20  9.71  9.69 ora_j001_pr
14   ? 27495 oracle   154 20 52453M  8636K sleep    1:19  8.17  8.16 ora_j004_pr
 4   ? 27482 oracle   154 20 52457M  9020K sleep    1:18  6.90  6.89 ora_j002_p74


What does

Memory: 13282568K (1729912K) real mean-the value 13282568K and 1729912K represents what part s of physical memory?
Also
57718252K (5759048K) virtual repsesents what values

And does
23845192K free represent the amount of free physical memory?

I would like to know from the above figures,which values represents value of free and used physical and virtual memory?

Also,please explain to me the various values of swapinfo shown below

Code:
$ swapinfo
             Kb      Kb      Kb   PCT  START/      Kb
TYPE      AVAIL    USED    FREE   USED   LIMIT RESERVE  PRI  NAME
dev     8388608    7964 8380644      0%       0       -    1  /dev/vg00/lvol2
dev     16777216    8196 16769020    0%       0       -    1  /dev/vg00/swap
dev     25165824    7824 25158000    0%       0       -    1  /dev/vg00/swap2
dev     20971520    7324 20964196    0%       0       -    1  /dev/vg00/swap1
reserve       - 57816448 -57816448
memory  63661264 10465664 53195600   16%

Thanks.
Last edited by pludi; 07-18-2011 at 04:55 AM..
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