From: notes@teecs.UUCP (Notes manager)
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 19:55:57 GMT
Subject: Re: sar reporting incorrectly on 9000/822
Message-ID: <29280007@teecs.UUCP>
Organization: Litton Systems, Toronto ONT
Path: utzoo!censor!teecs!notes
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
References: <1991May13.110328.28522@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>

/ teecs:comp.sys.hp / s900387@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Craig Macbride) 

>A 9000/822 running version 7 HP/UX has an inode table of size over 600.
>These days, sar reports the current size as _always_ between 0 and 4 less
>than the _total_, no matter how many processes are running or how many files
>are actually open! No overflows are recorded, nor do errors occur at any time.
>The open file table is reported to be around 200/1100 most of the time, which
>seems reasonable.

>Do anyone know what may cause this strange behaviour?


This same problem exists on 825/835 systems running hp-ux 7.0.
When I first saw it, I assumed that the table was actually almost
full, so I increased its size, only to find that sar still showed it
to be almost full!  The lack of any overflow messages means that
it is sar at fault; the tables seem to be OK.  I assume it
is a bug in sar at hp-ux 7.0.

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