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From: rml@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lenk)
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Subject: Re: HP-UX vmstat?
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Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 18:45:21 EDT
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> Has anyone gotten versions of vmstat or iostat running under HP-UX?

If you have the 4.2BSD source, there shouldn't be much problem getting
them to run on the series 300.  The only problem I know of is that they
try to access the kernel variable "hz" via nlist.  Since we do not use
that kernel variable, nlist returns a zero, and the programs die with
a SIGFPE.  You can use HZ from  instead to fix that.

As for your specific problem, it's possible that you are suffering from
fragmentation of your swap space.  You may be able to address this by
configuring a kernel with different values for DMMIN and DMMAX, and/or
by providng more swap space.  If your discs were built from the default
entries in a pre-5.2 /etc/disktab they may have a poorly sized swap
area (10*1000*1024 instead of 10*1024*1024 bytes), causing part of
the swap area to be wasted).

		Bob Lenk
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