.hd mon "system status monitor" 01/15/83
mon [<sample interval>]
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'Mon' is a program which continuously observes and displays
the various Primos databases and certain statistics on
performance, which it computes. It accepts one optional
command line argument, along with several single character
commands, once 'mon' is running. The command line argument
is the number of clock seconds to wait between each sampling
of the Primos databases. If omitted, the interval defaults
to 30 seconds. The single character commands, during the
program's run, determines which of several formats 'mon'
will use to display the information. The commands are:
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.tc #
l#Use LONG format (default)
s#Use SHORT format
m#Use SHORT MEMORY format
c#CLEAR the screen and redraw the data
q#\
cntrl-p#[bl]>Quit
BREAK#/
x#Execute a PRIMOS command
?#Display the available commands
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.sp
The "l", "s", and "m" commands adjust the format and information
displayed. The "l" and "s" commands display the statistics with
per process CPU usage in long and short formats respectively.
The "m" command displays the statistics
with per process memory usage (pages presently in memory).
.sp
The "c" command will clear and redraw the screen. This is useful
after Primos messages or Primos commands have been executed via the
"x" command (see below).
.sp
'Mon' will run continuously until interrupted by either a "q", a BREAK,
or a control-p being typed. It will then position the cursor to
the bottom of the screen and terminate.
.sp
The "x" command allows the execution of PRIMOS commands
while 'mon' is running. It is similar to the Subsystem's "x" command.
This feature allows system administrators to see how changing scheduling
parameters affects system performance.
.sp
The "?" command will display the available single letter commands and
then wait until any character is typed before continuing.
.sp 3
SYSTEM WIDE TIME STATISTICS:
.sp
For each of these, total time is displayed in hours, minutes
seconds and hundredths of seconds, along with the change in
time since last interval was displayed. The change is displayed
in seconds and hundredths of seconds. The format of these
statistics does not change with a change in display format.
.sp
.in +20
.tc \
.ti -20
Up Time\Total clock time since last boot.
.sp
.ti -20
User Cpu Time\Total cpu time used by normal user processes since last
boot.
.sp
.ti -20
I/O Time\Total I/O time charged since last boot.
.sp 2
.in -20
OTHER SYSTEM WIDE STATISTICS:
.sp
For Disk Accesses and Page faults, the total number since boot
is displayed, as well as the number and rate (per second) during
the last sample interval.
The format of this information does not change with a format
change.
.sp
.in +20
.ti -20
Disk Accesses\Total disk accesses since the system was booted.
.sp
.ti -20
Page Faults\Total number of page faults since the system was booted.
.sp
.ti -20
Buffer Hit Rate\The number of disk records that were found in the
in-memory associative buffers as a percentage of the total number of
disk records requests during the last sample interval.
.sp 2
.in -20
PER-PROCESS STATISTICS:
.sp
For each process, the user name, user number, total cpu time used,
change in cpu time since last interval, and percentage of the
cpu time used since the last interval are displayed. In addition
to each logged in user process, data is displayed for other
internal system processes that are active: the Clock process,
two Idle processes (the system backstop processes; 1 for the
main cpu, and one for the attached processor, if it exists),
two Mpc processes (for line printers, mag tapes, and other
unit record devices), the Amlc process (asynchronous line
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driver), the Smlc process (synchronous line driver), and the
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Ring process (the network driver).
.es
mon
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.me
.in +5
.ti -5
"Usage: mon ..." for invalid argument syntax.
.ti -5
"Terminal type '<term_type>' not supported" when <term_type> is not
supported by VTH.
.in -5
.bu
Since 'mon' can't lock the Primos databases that it reads the
data returned isn't guaranteed to be 100% accurate. Bogus values
may appear when a user logs in and out, but these will disappear during
the next interval. Accuracy will improve with longer display times.
.sp
If more users than the screen can display are logged in, the
higher user numbers may be cut off on the bottom of the screen.
The short formats can display 50% more users, but even that isn't
quite enough for 128 processes.
.sp
Since 'mon' requires breaks being enabled in order to stop,
it ensures that breaks are enabled. If a user has pending breaks,
'mon' will terminate as soon as it enables breaks, rather than
continuing.
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