decreases if prm2d is running, because PRM reserves 11% of the remaining memory to ensure the processes in PRM_SYS have immediate access to needed memory.

This command is useful in determining memory shares. For example, if a PRM group receives 50 of the 100 memory shares assigned, the number of shares equates to 106 Mbytes on this system. If that is too much or too little memory, the number of shares can be adjusted accordingly.

Displaying number of cores to determine number of shares

The prmavail command displays the number of cores when the CPU argument is specified:

#prmavail CPU 16 Cores

This command is useful in determining how much CPU resources a number of shares equates to on a multiprocessor system. For example, 25 CPU shares out of a total of 100 shares assigned on a 16-core system is roughly equivalent to 4 cores.

Displaying past process information

The acctcom command with the -Poption prints the PRM group name in addition to the customary acctcom information for all groups on the system. Adding the -Roption and a PRM group name displays information for that group. The following command displays history information about all PRM groups:

#acctcom -P

COMMAND

 

 

START

END

REAL

CPU

 

NAME

USER

TTYNAME

TIME

TIME

(SECS)

(SECS)

PRMID

ls

root

ttyp1

17:32:08

17:32:08

0.02

0.01

OTHERS

rm

root

ttyp1

17:32:25

17:32:25

0.25

0.02

OTHERS

registra

root

?

17:33:04

17:33:04

0.04

0.04

PRM_SYS

vi

dev1

ttyp2

17:33:07

17:33:35

28.20

0.05

develop

cpp.ansi

dev1

ttyp2

17:33:49

17:33:49

0.04

0.01

develop

ccom

dev1

ttyp2

17:33:49

17:33:49

0.16

0.13

develop

ld

dev1

ttyp2

17:33:49

17:33:49

0.15

0.12

develop

cc

dev1

ttyp2

17:33:49

17:33:49

0.41

0.02

develop

vi

dev1

ttyp2

17:34:00

17:34:52

52.57

2.76

develop

hostname

root

ttyp1

17:35:56

17:35:56

0.01

0.01

OTHERS

ls

root

ttyp1

17:36:11

17:36:11

0.03

0.03

OTHERS

more

root

ttyp1

17:36:12

17:36:19

7.00

0.05

OTHERS

The prmanalyze utility is also useful for examining past process data. For syntax information, see “prmanalyze” on (page 102) . For usage examples, see “Using prmanalyze to quickly identify resource use” on (page 42) and “Using prmanalyze to analyze your configuration” on (page 83) .

Displaying current process information

Using the ps command with the -Poption adds a column listing each process’s PRM group by name.

#ps -P

PRMID

PID

TTY

TIME COMMAND

PRM_SYS

1047

ttyp2

0:01 sh

PRM_SYS

1046

ttyp2

0:02 rlogind

PRM_SYS

1081

ttyp2

0:00

ps

OTHERS

548

?

0:20

sendmail

By using ps with the -land -Poptions, the PRMID is printed instead of the PRM group name.

#ps -l -P

F S UID PRMID

PID PPID

C PRI NI

ADDR

SZ

WCHAN

TTY

TIME COMD

1

S

0

1

3300

3299

0 158 20

65c180

78

418480

ttyp2

0:00

sh

1

R

0

0

3299

492

0 154 20

6a1d80

18

 

ttyp2

0:00

rlogind

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