Keep a good practice in monitor your Unix system memory growth especially on memory RSS and VSS using glance on HP-UX. What if you don’t have the tools glance available for system monitoring?

You can opt to use the command top, however I would love to use the command ‘UNIX95= ps -eo vsz,ruser,pid,args | sort -rn’ in any Unix variant as the output doesn’t change fast on screen.

You can split the monitoring based on process name such as f60webmx (Oracle Forms session), java or LIB (Oracle Concurrent Manager session) by using the query as below.

while true
do
UNIX95= ps -eo vsz,ruser,pid,args | sort -rn | grep f60webmx | grep applprod | head -20
sleep 5
clear
done

while true
do
UNIX95= ps -eo vsz,ruser,pid,args | sort -rn | grep java | grep applprod | head -20
sleep 5
clear
done

while true
do
UNIX95= ps -eo vsz,ruser,pid,args | sort -rn | grep LIB | grep applprod | head -20
sleep 5
clear
done

In every 5 second, the screen will be refresh to display the top 20 process with highest memory consumption.

From the first column of the result, multiply it with 4096 and divide by 1024/1024 to get the result of memory in MB.