Re: process displayed in unix "top" command

could be top problem. try prstat instead of top on solaris 8.

santysharma

"Ed Wong" <ewong_at_mail.com> wrote in message news:a5ae1554.0303041642.7591907b_at_posting.google.com...
> Recently I moved a database from one server to another other. The
> only difference is the new server is sun solaris 2.8 verus the old one
> sun solaris 2.7. When the database is running on solaris 2.7, the
> "top" command shows the amount SIZE and RES which is memory usage.
> However, after I moved to a new server, SIZE and RES is always zero,
> regardless what the datbaase usage is. Is this a problem? Or is it
> just because of differnet version of platform?
>
> Thanks,
> ewong
>
> On Sun Solaris 2.7:
> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
> 325 oracle 1 10 0 359M 326M cpu/9 0:01 0.00% oracle
> 543 oracle 1 10 0 360M 326M cpu/5 0:00 0.00% oracle
> 656 oracle 1 20 0 359M 326M cpu/13 0:00 0.00% oracle
> ........
>
> After move to Sun Solaris 2.8 server:
> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
> 436 oracle 1 58 0 0K 0K sleep 0:01 0.00% oracle
> 438 oracle 1 58 0 0K 0K sleep 0:01 0.00% oracle
> 541 oracle 1 0 0 0K 0K sleep 0:00 0.00% oracle
> ........
Received on Tue Mar 04 2003 - 21:29:50 CST