Monitoring top 10 processes - SunOS 5.8

[Vlado22]

Hi.

We got Sun280R with SunOS 5.8:

sun1:/# uname -a
SunOS sun1 5.8 Generic_108528-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
sun1:/#

I wanna to monitor top (eg. 10) processes according to the processor spending time, I/O load, real/virtual memory usage.
"ps" is not exactly what I want (even though sorting is by "awk" and "sort" possible). Are there some utilities (perhaps free downloadable from web?)? E.g. "top", "monitor", ... for 64-bit environment?

I made "top" but it writes following error meassage:
sun:/tmp# top
top: /dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel namelist
kvm_open: Error 0
sun:/tmp#

Anyone so kind to advise me?
Thanks ahead for helping and your time.

Vlado

 

[KenCunningham]

top is certainly available for Solaris 8. In fact, I think it's included somewhere on the distro. CDs. Otherwise, check out

http://www.sunfreeware.com

for a downloadable version. HTH.

 

[Vlado22]

Thank you Ken. I'm gonna try to chcek CD and then the mentioned link.

Nice day.

Vlado

 

[mrjazz]

Hi Vlado,

what about the "/usr/bin/prstat" command? As far as I know it exists since Solaris 7, but is definitely part of Solaris 8. There are a lot of sorting options (sorting by CPU usage is the default).
For example to see the "top ten" processes regarding CPU usage you could use:

# prstat -c -n 10

-c prints the reports below previous reports.
-n restricts the number of output lines.

For all other options see the man page.

HTH

mrjazz

 

[Vlado22]

Hi Mrjazz.

Yes, "/usr/bin/prstat" is OK. I've found it already.

Now I'm using "top" ver. 3.5beta9 from

http://www.sunfreeware.com.

It works fine and it's sufficient for my purposes.

Thank you.

Vlado

 

[Annihilannic]

I know your problem's solved, but another handy way for a quick check is to use the UCB version of ps, e.g. /usr/ucb/ps uax | head, which sorts by CPU usage by default. Annihilannic.