eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by ProcActivityTest

The ProcActivityTest reports statistics related to the number and size of processes executing on a system. This test works on Solaris, Linux, HPUX, and AIX platforms only. The measures made by the test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Current_processes The number of processes currently running Number

The detailed diagnosis of this measure will display the process ID of each of the processes currently executing, the process argument (the process name and path), and the virtual size of each process.

Processes_added The number of processes added during the last measurement period Number

 

Processes_removed The number of processes that were abnormally terminated/completed during the last measurement period Number

 

Virtual_size The total size of the process in virtual memory MB

 

Resident_size The resident size of the process. This denotes the size taken up by the process in the RAM, i.e., real address space MB

Virtual size is always greater than or equal to the resident size of the process. This measure will not be available for AIX platforms.