vmstat doesnt work bos.acct installed

[steenb]

(h50) oracle > vmstat
kthr memory page faults cpu
----- ----------- ------------------------ ------------ -----------
r b avm fre re pi po fr sr cy in sy cs us sy id wa
read: There is a request to a device or address that does not exist.
(h50) oracle > which_fileset vmstat
/usr/bin/vmstat bos.acct 4.3.3.0
/usr/ucb/vmstat -> /usr/bin/vmstat bos.compat.links 4.3.1.0
(h50) oracle > lslpp -l bos.acct
Fileset Level State Description
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Path: /usr/lib/objrepos
bos.acct 4.3.3.0 COMMITTED Accounting Services

Path: /etc/objrepos
bos.acct 4.3.3.0 COMMITTED Accounting Services
(h50) oracle >

How to I find out why vmstat doesnt work ?
regards
Steen
BTW monitor works ...

 

[bjverzal]

What is your oslevel ? Did you reboot after install bos.acct ? If not, you need to.

Bill.

 

[steenb]

Hi Bill
thx for quick answer
>>
(h50) oracle > oslevel
4.3.3.0
(h50) oracle >
(h50) oracle > uptime
05:19PM up 34 days, 19:24, 3 users, load average: 0.30, 0.30, 0.38
(h50) oracle >
<<
as U can see I dont reboot frequently, but Im &quot;quite&quot; sure that I did reboot after bos.act was applied. Any way to make sure that I did reboot after bos.act ? other than reboot ...
regards
SteenB

 

[bjverzal]

Compare

who -b

with

lslpp -h bos.acct

That will give you last boot time and date/time the fileset was installed.

Bill.

 

[aixqueen]

One last thought...
If you did reboot after the install....
Perhaps you did a migration from an eariler version...your PATH may have another copy of vmstat (an old version) before the new version? /usr/bin/vmstat

#which vmstat
may help?

 

[bjverzal]

aixqueen: It's easy to see why you're listed as a top forum member....nice suggestion.

BV

 

[steenb]

Hi
first : the reboot
>>
(h50) oracle > who -b
. system boot May 03 21:55
You have mail in /usr/spool/mail/oracle
(h50) oracle > su -
root's Password:
# lslpp -h bos.acct
Fileset Level Action Status Date Time
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Path: /usr/lib/objrepos
bos.acct
4.3.3.0 COMMIT COMPLETE 04/19/01 15:20:45

Path: /etc/objrepos
bos.acct
4.3.3.0 COMMIT COMPLETE 04/19/01 15:20:46
#
<<
so bos.acct was committed 190401 1520 and the last reboot was 0305.
the version :
>>
# which vmstat
/usr/bin/vmstat
# echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin
#
<<
So my path doesnt point to anything else than the default place for vmstat ...
As aixqueen pointed out : good suggestion.
any other ideas ?
regards
SteenB

 

[bjverzal]

What happens when you run &quot;vmstat 3 3&quot; ?

Bill.

 

[steenb]

>>
(h50) oracle > vmstat 3 3
kthr memory page faults cpu
----- ----------- ------------------------ ------------ -----------
r b avm fre re pi po fr sr cy in sy cs us sy id wa
read: There is a request to a device or address that does not exist.
(h50) oracle >
<<
I begin to think that this might be &quot;a hardware configuration issue&quot;, how to I check that vmstat is quering hardware that I have ? or is it plain silly ?
regards
SteenB

 

[bjverzal]

I think a call to IBM is in order. That is probably your quickest route to resolving this.

Bill.

 

[aixqueen]

Yep IBM may be the fastest way......

you might want to check the diag -a command and
also the alog -o -t boot| more
and see if there are any errors when the machine came
up ..........anything without a return code 0?
. also errpt -a and look for errors in your system....

 

[aixqueen]

I might consider a reboot ...it will tell you if there are any errors...
maybe something new developed....

 

[steenb]

I'll contact IBM
thx for the help
regards
SteenB

 

[francs]

Looking at the man page for vmstat (3rd paragraph) it looks like vmstat obtain some statistics through the /dev/kmem device file. See if you have such a file and whether the permissions are correct. My /dev/kmem permissions are:
cr--r----- 1 rot system 2, 1 Mar 07 1999 /dev/kmem

 

[Janghyegyung]

AIXers.

I have the same problem. Cannot run vmstat.

# vmstat
kthr memory page faults cpu
----- ----------- ------------------------ ------------ -----------
r b avm fre re pi po fr sr cy in sy cs us sy id wa
read: There is a request to a device or address that does not exist.

I did reboot and do have a bos.acct, /dev/kmem file, however, as mentioned by aixqueen on the other thread, oslevel and fileset version is strange.

# oslevel
4.3.0.0

# lslpp -l |grep bos.acct
bos.acct 4.3.2.1 COMMITTED Accounting Services
bos.acct 4.3.1.0 COMMITTED Accounting Services

What should I do?

 

[bjverzal]

lslpp -l bos.rte.commands

Take the level from that output and put it into an:

oslevel -l <version from above>

Post the results.

Bill.