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- From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:52:18 GMT
- Subject: Re: sar -v text-sz header: What is it???
- Message-ID: <28510405@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
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- References: <3449@nlsun1.oracle.nl>
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- I wrote:
-
- > > HP-UX 8.07 HP 9000/827S
- [deleted]
- > As sar(1) says, it is the size of the text table. The relevant kernel
- > parameter is ntext. See the SA Tasks manual for details on ntext and the SA
- > Concepts manual for details on (shared) text (code).
-
- and mabrams@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Michael Abrams) writes:
-
- > And nothing is what you get. This used to (before 8.0) refer to the number of
- > entries/size of the text table. HP-UX stopped using a text table in 8.0, but
- > the heading was kept in sar to make it look like sar. The values you see,
- > which should be the same on both sides of the /, are basically meaningless.
- > At 9.0, the bogus values are replaced by N/A (as in, not applicable, I guess).
- > There are no kernel parameters that affect it.
-
- I guess this is my punishment for RTFM! :-) Well, you can't be right
- all (most? some? :-)) of the time!
-
- Frank Slootweg, HP, Dutch Customer Response Center
-