Performance Analysis Tools for HP-UX 11i on Integrity Servers
Example of use
This command runs the default measurement, for a sampled call graph, on an application named myprog:
$ caliper myprog
See also
“HP OpenView GlancePlus” (page 12)
For more information
See the HP Caliper Web site at:
http://www.hp.com/go/caliper
4 Standard HP-UX commands for obtaining system performance data
The commands described are all available on any HP-UX system.
4.1 fsadm (file system administration)
This command performs selected administration tasks on file systems. These tasks might differ between
file system types.
When to use
When you want to perform particular tasks on a device file or a directory.
Example of use
To display HFS-relevant file system statistics:
$ fsadm -F hfs /dev/vg02/lvol1
For more information
See man fsadm.
4.2 iostat (I/O statistics)
This command reports I/O statistics for each active disk on the system.
The general form of this command is:
iostat [-t] [interval [count]]
When to use
When you want to find out kilobytes transferred per second, number of seeks per second, and milliseconds
per average seek.
Example of use
$ iostat
For more information
See man iostat.
4.3 ipcs (interprocess communication facilities)
This command displays certain information about active interprocess communication facilities. Used
without options, ipcs displays information in short format for the message queues, shared memory
segments, and semaphores that are currently active in the system.
Example of use 7