[Orca-users] Snapshot 480

[Allen Eastwood]

I'd certainly be interested in it.

I've offered access to my U60 to Blair if that'll
help.  Same offer to anyone else who's working on this
or other parts of Orca and does not have access to a
Sparc box.

Thanks!

-A

--- "Cockcroft, Adrian" <acockcroft at ebay.com> wrote:

> Years ago I contributed the workollator.se script
> that con be configured to collect microstate based
> data on any pattern matched group of processes, and
> display the data using orca. It was developed while
> I was working with Justin Buhler on the Olympics
> systems at Salt Lake and was updated and used again
> in Athens. In particular it was used to monitor
> several Oracle instances and a bunch of java
> processes, and on Solaris the microstate
> (/proc/pid/usage) data it collates is far more
> accurate and complete than the data you get from
> ps/top etc (/proc/pid/pstatus)
> 
> I'm not sure what happened to the orca config file
> that plotted the data, but workollator.se is part of
> the SE toolkit. It runs as a separate process from
> orcallator.se since the input data, frequency of
> update and output file format are different. There
> is an extra processing step called "explode" that
> takes the combined output file and generates the
> per-workload files for orca to display.
> 
> I wrote this up somewhere, but its been long enough
> that I can't remember all the details.
> Also, I did some tweaks to improve it and can't
> remember if they made it into the latest SE release.
> If there is enough interest in getting this sorted
> out, I'll try and dig out the code and get it into
> the orca build. Also I think Justin wrote up some of
> this in a Sysadmin mag online article.
> 
> Cheers Adrian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> orca-users-bounces+acockcroft=ebay.com at orcaware.com
> on behalf of Blair Zajac
> Sent:	Mon 8/29/2005 8:02 PM
> To:	Nguyen, Binh T
> Cc:	orca-users at orcaware.com
> Subject:	Re: [Orca-users] Snapshot 480
> 
> Nguyen, Binh T wrote:
> >  
> > Allan
> > In May 2005 orca mailing list there is some
> discussion of monitoring
> > certain process like java http and oracle etc..
> > I check the 0.27 se file and cant find any
> indication of it.. I took a
> > latest snapshot and browse through the se
> > And saw a few new additions like work_load stuff
> so I assume it's only
> > available in the later snapshot.
> 
> Oh yes, the work_load features.  Haven't had a
> chance to look at that.  Not 
> having a Solaris system handy makes it tough :)
> 
> Regards,
> Blair
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