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Filemon Fileplace Lsps Pagesize Lsattr Pstat Ipcs Ps Iostat Svmon Tprof Vmstat Sar Nfsstat Netpmon

This document lists and provides brief descriptions of various commands used to monitor system performance on AIX systems. Some of the commands described include filemon for file and volume statistics, fileplace to check file placement, lsps for paging space statistics, iostat for device I/O statistics, ipcs for interprocess communication status, ps for process status, sar for system activity recording, svmon for memory usage snapshots, and vmstat for virtual memory and disk/CPU statistics.

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Filemon Fileplace Lsps Pagesize Lsattr Pstat Ipcs Ps Iostat Svmon Tprof Vmstat Sar Nfsstat Netpmon

This document lists and provides brief descriptions of various commands used to monitor system performance on AIX systems. Some of the commands described include filemon for file and volume statistics, fileplace to check file placement, lsps for paging space statistics, iostat for device I/O statistics, ipcs for interprocess communication status, ps for process status, sar for system activity recording, svmon for memory usage snapshots, and vmstat for virtual memory and disk/CPU statistics.

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Performance Commands

 filemon - Performance statistics for files, logical/physical volumes and virtual memory segments
 fileplace - Placement of a file's blocks within a file system
 lsps - Statistics about paging space
 pagesize - Displays system page size
 lsattr - Lists attributes associated with a device
 pstat - Statistics about system attributes
 ipcs - Status of interprocess communication facilities
 ps - Display status of current processes
 iostat - Statistics for ttys, disks and cpu
 svmon - Captures a snapshot of the current contents of both real and virtual memory
 tprof - Detailed profile of CPU usage by an application
 vmstat - Statistics about virtual memory and cpu/hard disk usage
 sar - System Activity Recorder
 nfsstat - Displays information about NFS and RPC calls

 netpmon - Performance statistics for CPU usage, network device-driver I/O, socket calls, and NFS

filemon

Performance statistics for files, logical/physical volumes and virtual memory segments.

Examples What it does


filemon -o /tmp/filemon.log -O all Monitor activity at all file system levels and write the results to the file named
/tmp/filemon.log
trcstop The trcstop command will terminate the trace initiated by the filemon
command.

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fileplace

Reports the placement of a file's blocks within a file system. Used to examine and assess the efficiency of a file's
placement on disk.

Example: fileplace -pv /unix

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netpmon

Performance statistics for CPU usage, network device-driver I/O, socket calls, and NFS I/O. For CPU usage, it estimates
how much of this usage is due to network-related activities.

Example:

1. netpmon -o /tmp/netpmon.log -O all


2. trcstop

The trcstop command will terminate the trace initiated by the netpmon command.

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lsps

Report statistics about paging space.

Example: lsps -a

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iostat

Report statistics for ttys, disks and cpu

Examples What it does


iostat -d hdisk0 hdisk1 5 Will monitor disk activity only for physical volumes hdisk0 1
iostat -t 5 Will monitor terminal activity only and display tty statistics every 5 seconds

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ipcs

Status of interprocess communication facilities. This is a kernel attribute that cannot be modified.

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lsattr

Lists attributes associated with a device.

NOTE: maxmbuf sets the limit of the memory governed by the IPC and network buffering capability.

Examples What it does


lsattr -l sys0 -E Entries marked 'True' are attributes that can be configured
lsattr -l sys0 -a maxpout=9 -a minpout=6 Changes the HIGH/LOW water marks for pending write I/Os per file.

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nfsstat

Display information about NFS and RPC calls

Examples What it does


nfsstat Displays statistics about NFS and RPC calls
nfsstat -zcsr Initializes statistics (to ZERO) for client (-c), server (-s), and rpc (-r) calls.

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pagesize

Display system page size

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ps

Display status of current processes. This command is useful for determining if runaway processes are excessively
utilizing the CPU or memory.

For example, if a machine was just rebooted and appears to be running slowly, use this command to see if there are any
getty processes running wild, using excessive CPU time.

 Getty's should never be using more than 0% of measured CPU time as reported by the output of the command
ps avg.
 If this is not the case, suspect noise on that line.
 A login state of PDELAY for that port may resolve that problem.

 STAT column
o R means RUNNING process
o S means SLEEPING process
o Z means ZOMBIE process
 RSS represents how much memory (in 1k bytes) process is using.
 SIZE represents how much paging space (in 1k bytes) process is using.
 CPU represents how much cpu time a process is using
 MEM represents a percentage of remaining memory a process is using

Examples What it does


ps avg a displays information about all processes. v displays fields: PGIN,SIZE,RSS,LIM,TSIZE,TRS,%CPU,
%MEM
ps -ft tty2/0 Lists all the processes running on port tty2/0
ps -furoger Lists all the processes running under the user roger
ps -e Display the environment as well as the command
ps -ef Full listing of all processes in the system. If the 'C' field (means processor utilization) has a large
value, this means that that process is a CPU intensive task.
ps -t - Lists processes not associated with a terminal

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pstat

Statistics about system attributes. This utility is useful to determine how much paging is in use. If the amount of paging
space is less than the amount of real memory in the system, it's possible the system will run out of paging space before
real memory. This is because AIX performs early allocation of page space. When a page is referenced, real memory and
paging space blocks are allocated. If there are less paging space blocks then real memory pages, paging space will be
exhaused before all of real memory is consumed.

Examples What it does


pstat -s Displays paging space statistics
pstat -T Displays system variables

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sar

System Activity Recorder utility found on all UNIX systems that monitors various system functions like

 cpu
 hard disk
 terminal IO
 number of files open
 processes running

Use cron to execute sar at specific times based on workload, and the sa1 and sa2 scripts to maintain a report history of
system usage.

Examples What it does


nohup sar -A -o /tmp/SAR.STATS 60 600 > /dev/null & Collect all the statistics that sar monitors at 60 second
intervals for a 10 hour period. Also redirects console
output to null device
sar -u 5 10 Interactively run the sar command and review CPU
utlization every 10 seconds for 5 interations.

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svmon
Virtual memory monitor that captures a snapshot of the current contents of both real and virtual memory, and
summarizes the contents. Useful for determining which processes are using the most memory.

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tprof

Detailed profile of CPU usage by an application. Provides an estimate of CPU usage for each routine in a profile. Useful
to determine where an application maybe CPU bound.

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vmstat

Statistics about virtual memory and cpu/hard disk usage.

Example: vmstat hdisk0 hdisk1 5 (Display various statistics every 5 seconds)

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