[Info-vax] vms base priority watch

[pcoviello at gmail.com]

On Jul 8, 10:21 am, Keith Cayemberg <keith.cayemb... at arcor.de> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 3:07 pm, "pcovie... at gmail.com" <pcovie... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Jul 8, 2:39 am, Hans Vlems <hvl... at freenet.de> wrote:
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> > > On 7 jul, 23:04, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net> wrote:
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> > > > On 7/7/2011 4:55 PM, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
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> > > > > In article<30f1004b-ba65-4fa9-a202-cee60778e... at x16g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>, "pcovie... at gmail.com"<pcovie... at gmail.com>  writes:
> > > > >> is there a way to monitor a base priority, let's say hourly to see if
> > > > >> it might be changed?
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> > > > > Yes.
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> > > > <snicker, choke, gasp>
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> > > Why the reaction? Brian gave the perfect answer to the question.
> > > All we're waiting for is the response of the OP. Which may be:
> > > - OK, I'll start reading up on system services and a little macro
> > > - Umm, could you write me a program (providing some specifications
> > > perhaps)
> > > And of course the (rather real) possibility that the OP just sits
> > > there not knowing how to handle a perfect response ;-)
> > > Well, Paul, share your thoughts with us!
> > > Hans
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> > ok well. I did ask a yes/no question! me bad!  yes I understand the
> > non-prived user would not do this but... we have given users the
> > rights to do this early in the morning to get their jobs completed,
> > when there are less users on the system. we fear (rightfully so) there
> > may be some who may do it doing during a regular work day... :-
> > (  Right now just looking for a pointer in the right direction maybe
> > later if I'm stuck I would need help with code... everyplace I look
> > I'm not sure where to get a search done for a base priority above 4
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> > thanks
> > Paul
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> Hi Paul,
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> there are many OpenVMS process monitoring utilities (both freeware and
> commercial) that may fit your needs. However, I think many in this
> forum would first like to point out, you should first be sure what
> your needs really are. If setting process priorities higher is
> noticeably helping some of your users at all, then you probably have
> some sort of system configuration imbalance that could be better
> solved another way. There are many OpenVMS consultants watching this
> forum who would appreciate a short-term commission to analyze your
> system (I'm not one of them, I've got a long-term OpenVMS corporate
> customer already).
>
> That being said, I think I can point you in the right direction with
> regards to checking process base priorities yourself.
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> For all of the following, it is assumed you have GROUP or WORLD
> privileges allowing you to see the process job information of other
> user's processes.
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> $ show process cayemberg
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>  8-JUL-2011 15:51:34.82   User: CAYEMBERG        Process ID:
> 2023280A
>                           Node: CH21             Process name:
> "CAYEMBERG"
>
> Terminal:           TNA40:  (Host: HVDH9C0D.tiretech.contiwan.com
> Port: 4673)
> User Identifier:    [PROSI,CAYEMBERG]
> Base priority:      9
> Default file spec:  Not available
> Number of Kthreads: 1
>
> Devices allocated:  CH21$TNA40:
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> Soft CPU Affinity: off
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> You can also write your own DCL procedure, and run it once per hour as
> a batch job, or as a detached process. Here is a skeleton procedure to
> get you started.
>
> $ create show_prib.com
> $ CONTEXT = ""
> $ START:
> $     PID = F$PID(CONTEXT)
> $     IF PID .EQS. "" THEN EXIT
> $     WRITE SYS$OUTPUT PID," ",f$getjpi(PID,"PRIB"),"    ",f
> $getjpi(PID,"PRCNAM"),"    ",f$getjpi(PID,"USERNAME")
> $     GOTO START
> $ EXIT
> <CONTROL Z>
>
> CH21 @show_prib.com
> 20200401 16    SWAPPER    SYSTEM
> 20200407 12    CLUSTER_SERVER    SYSTEM
> 20200408 8    CONFIGURE    SYSTEM
> 20200409 12    LANACP    SYSTEM
> 2023280A 9    CAYEMBERG    CAYEMBERG
> [...]
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> You should study the lexicals f$getjpi, f$pid and f$context, for
> formatted output also F$FAO.
> All are well documented in the online help at  $ HELP LEXICALS
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> You could also use my PROCESS_SCAN.COM procedure as a starting point
> here...
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> http://dcl.openvms.org/stories.php?story=07/11/25/2406271
> orhttp://www.jescab.se/upload/process_scan.zip
> orhttp://wwwvms.mppmu.mpg.de/util_root/com/process_scan.com
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> CH21 ps * CAYEMBERG * * * * PRIB
>
> Scan: p=* u=CAYEMBERG n=* j=* i=* s=* PRIB
> Node   Username     ProcessName     Pid      Jobtype  State Pri
> CPUTime     I/O       PgFlts   Image
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------­---
> CH21   CAYEMBERG    CAYEMBERG       2023280A REMOTE   LEF   9
> 0:00:00.10  496       634      VMSHELP.EXE
>   JPI_PRIB = 9   Hex = 00000009  Octal = 00000000011
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------­---
> Found:    1  Time: 16:20:04
>
> Cheers!
>
> Keith Cayemberg- Hide quoted text -
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I want to thank you all. this is the 4th day on the job and was rather
floored that this was allowed. it goes against all my principles...
but I do as I'm told, I am looking at solutions to this but until I
get a better understanding of what is being done... I'll leave it
alone.

again thank you!

Paul