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Dear All, Following is the output of a utility which works like prstat,on Solaris 8, IDS 9.40 UC2. I shall be much obliged if someone can help me understand the NICE part of this output, Minus value started appearing once we have change the number of locks from 10000 to 100,000. Any other observation/suggestion will highly be appreciated, as check pointing is taking long time (13~17 seconds). load averages: 1.03, 0.97, 0.86; up 600+01:15:29 17:05:34 171 processes: 164 sleeping, 3 running, 2 zombie, 2 on cpu CPU states: 46.1% idle, 40.1% user, 12.9% kernel, 0.8% iowait, 0.0% swap Memory: 4096M phys mem, 1034M free mem, 512M swap, 507M free swap PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND 12844 informix 4 42 -10 1259M 1068M run 49:57 26.10% oninit 13510 swx 13 59 0 176M 39M sleep 19:31 24.30% java 12834 informix 4 51 -10 1259M 1084M cpu 41:09 19.72% oninit 13422 swx 1 49 0 4968K 4200K sleep 3:23 4.98% ifc_andc_ 13423 swx 1 59 0 4968K 4200K sleep 3:21 3.19% ifc_andc_ 12856 informix 4 59 -10 1258M 5520K run 2:28 2.59% oninit 12855 informix 4 59 -10 1258M 5584K sleep 2:50 2.39% oninit I sincerly wish to thank everyone at IIUG for their support.

the NICE part in the output means oninit is running at a higher priority than the other processes. You can read the nice man ( man nice) besides the ps man . A fragment from the nice man: " The super-user may run commands with priority higher than normal by using a negative increment such as -10. A negative increment assigned by an unprivileged user is ignored." I hope this help you. Regards. --Nestor El dom, 20-07-2008 a las 10:35 -0400, SYED ALI escribió: > Dear All, > > Following is the output of a utility which works like prstat,on Solaris 8, IDS > 9.40 UC2. > > I shall be much obliged if someone can help me understand the NICE part of > this > output, Minus value started appearing once we have change the number of locks > from 10000 to 100,000. Any other observation/suggestion will highly be > appreciated, as check pointing is taking long time (13~17 seconds). > > load averages: 1.03, 0.97, 0.86; up 600+01:15:29 17:05:34 > 171 processes: 164 sleeping, 3 running, 2 zombie, 2 on cpu > CPU states: 46.1% idle, 40.1% user, 12.9% kernel, 0.8% iowait, 0.0% swap > Memory: 4096M phys mem, 1034M free mem, 512M swap, 507M free swap > > PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND > 12844 informix 4 42 -10 1259M 1068M run 49:57 26.10% oninit > 13510 swx 13 59 0 176M 39M sleep 19:31 24.30% java > 12834 informix 4 51 -10 1259M 1084M cpu 41:09 19.72% oninit > 13422 swx 1 49 0 4968K 4200K sleep 3:23 4.98% ifc_andc_ > 13423 swx 1 59 0 4968K 4200K sleep 3:21 3.19% ifc_andc_ > 12856 informix 4 59 -10 1258M 5520K run 2:28 2.59% oninit > 12855 informix 4 59 -10 1258M 5584K sleep 2:50 2.39% oninit > > I sincerly wish to thank everyone at IIUG for their support. > > > ******************************************************************************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. >