memory allocation Tru64 Unix 4.0G

[Guest_imported]

Excuse this if it is a simple question but I do not know the answer!

I want to start a cron job to backup various directories to a snap server on our network. Problem is, once it starts backing up the directories the amount of system free memory drops extremely quickly and everything grinds to a halt.
Is there a command I can use to limit the amount of memory just this one process can have?

 

[marrow]

I don't know of an actual command but perhaps you could lower the priority
use ps -el to check you current priorities on your system, then:-

"renice" (see man pages)
Example:-

Adjust the system scheduling priority so that process IDs
987 and 1012 would have a lower scheduling priority of 5:

renice -n 5 -p 987 1012

Is it worth adding some swap space?

mkfile 5m newswapfile

swap -a /fullpath/to/newswapfile
swap -d newswapfile will delete

 

[grega]

What exactly does your backup script do?

Greg.

 

[funkyd]

You can also put a "ulimit" command in your script to limit the memory usage...

ulimit -m [# of kB]

HTH

 

[Guest_imported]

Nice one. Have read the man pages on nice and ulimit and make the necessary changes and it seems to be working well.

Thanks guys and gals!

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi, guys.

1 question.
Does anybody get "C"-source to "uptime" for Tru64 5.1?

In other word, I wanna get some performance info 'bout load average from "/dev/kmem" structures for monitoring purposes by calling this from "C".

Will somebody be so kind and help me?
Thanks.

Vlado