Is there any memory/performance compare tool for the Unix platforms?

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Is there any good tools to do get resource usage, especially memory usage under Unix platforms, such as Linux, Solairs and HP IA?

Currently the only tool i know top. Is there any other tools. which are all platforms...

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

HP-UX - You can use command "top".

AIX - You can use " topas"

Solaris - > already mentioned in the other followup.

Cheers,

Jazz

[Former Member]

Hello

I think vmstat is pretty nice tool. It is implemented on most popular Unix systems including Linux, Solaris, AIX and so on.

It provides a lot of interesting information.

Regards,

Rongfeng

[nelis]

Also see http://www.unixguide.net/unixguide.shtml ...which has a comparative list of common commands(and other useful info) from each OS.

Nelis

[markus_doehr2]

"top" is available for almost all platforms (http://www.unixtop.org/).

You can get top here:

Solaris at http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/top

HP-UX at http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/top-3.6.1/

Because every Unix is different depending on the "base" (BSDish vs. SYSVish) different memory allocation APIs are used and are configured differently.

The native OS tools are usually better to trace down performance problems. On Solaris you have e. g. dtrace on HP-UX you can use Glance(/Plus).

Markus