I agree that randomly killing the top 5 "user" memory processes is not sensible.
On HP-UX you need to work from ps -al.
Assuming ksh .
To get you started. Execute the "ps" command, exclude the heading line containing "PID", sort numerical reversed by size, extract the top 5, extract the fields for PID and SIZE.
If the SIZE figures seem small it is because it is in 4k pages.
(On some HP-UX versions the Berkeley unix syntax ps aux is available by invoking UNIX95 mode within the Shell).
ps -al excludes process group leaders, while ps -el lists all processes.
On HP-UX the UNIX95 environment variable enables Posix mode (not BSD mode)
Posix has the nice -o format option:
I wanted to know how to find the memory taken by a process using top command. The output of the top command is as follows as an example:
Mem: 13333364k total, 13238904k used, 94460k free, 623640k buffers
Swap: 25165816k total, 112k used, 25165704k free, 4572904k cached
PID USER ... (6 Replies)
Good afternoon
I need to KILL a process in a single command sentence, for example:
kill -9 `ps -aef | grep 'CAL255.4ge' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
That sentence Kills the process ID corresponding to the program CAL255.4ge.
However it is possible that the same program... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I'd like to set a cron job that runs a shell script every 30 minutes or so to restart a java based service if the memory gets above 80%. Any advice on how to do this?
Thanks in advance!
- Ryan (19 Replies)
i have edited a script to kill an exact mysql process is causing the high load on the server, my problem is, kill dont kill it!
script:
#!/bin/sh
top -n 1 -u mysql | grep mysqld | awk '{print $1}' > pid
proc='cat pid'
kill -9 $proc
or i try with
kill -9 `top -n 1 -u mysql | grep mysqld... (8 Replies)
Okay, I am trying to come up with a multi-platform script to report top ten CPU and memory hog processes, which will be run by our enterprise monitoring application as an auto-action item when the CPU and Memory utilization gets reported as higher than a certain threshold
I use top on other... (5 Replies)
HI All,
Can anyone send me a command to find TOP 5 Memory consuming process.
It would be lelpful if I get output something like below
processname - pid - memory(in MB) - command
I tried few commands from the internet but the result only give the real memory usage or pagging, I want total... (4 Replies)
Hi Unix Gurus i am somewhat new to unix scripting so need your help to
create a script as below.
# This script would find the process consuming memory beyond a certain #limit. if the meemory consumption is more than 100% for a period of 1
# minute for the specific process. the script would... (0 Replies)
I want to Kill a process without using kill command as i don't have privileges to kill the process. I know the pid and i am using Linux 2.6.9 OS. (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I am unable to kill a process using kill command. I am using HP-UX system. I have tried with kill -9 and i have root privilages.
How can i terminate this daemon ? ? ?
Regards,
Vijay Hegde (3 Replies)