Getting memory size for an application

[shorti]

Hello, I am running DB2 V8.2 on AIX. I am looking for a way to get
the memory size of a specific db2 agent. I have found the db2mtrk
tool that gives me a list of all the applications and heap sizes.
Also there is "DB2 Snapshot for Application" but I am looking for a
way to capture the data for C code without having to parse through a
file. The SNAPSHOT_APPL and SNAPSHOT_APPL_INFO table functions seem
to fall short of the information

I noted there is an admin view available in DB2 V9 that gets the same
information as db2mtrk but it does not appear to be available in V8.

So, does anyone know of a way to retrieve this data? Is it stored in
a DB2 System table somewhere or is there some other way to access the
info from memory? Maybe there is a nifty way to extract it from
SNAPSHOT without outputting to a file and parsing it. I have looked
at getting the same info from AIX but it would also require gathering
the size from a "ps" file or the like....and that is after I match the
application id to a PID.

I am looking for a "low cost" way of doing this as I do not want to
tax the system in any way to get the data. Any advise would be
helpful.

Thanks in advanced!

[Lew]

Since a db2 agent is just a process in v8 you can use the ps aux
command, SZ and RSS columns, to estimate the process size. If you
have root authority you can use svmon for detailed memory usage.

Lew

[shorti]

On Jun 19, 8:46*am, Lew <[e-mail]:

Since a db2 agent is just a process in v8 you can use the ps aux
command, SZ and RSS columns, to estimate the process size. *If you
have root authority you can use svmon for detailed memory usage.

Lew

Thanks for the response Lew. Ive looked at this and became more
puzzed at how the sizes co-relate to each other.

ps aux:

USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TTY STAT STIME TIME
COMMAND
abcuser 274342 0.0 0.0 4140 2556 - A 15:05:18 0:02
db2agent (LOCALUSER)

SZ - size of the core image of the process in 1KB units
4,140,000
RSS - real memory size of the process in 1KB units
2,556,000

db2mtrk:
Memory for agent 274342

Application Control Heap is of size 32768 bytes
Application Heap is of size 1654784 bytes
Total: 1687552 bytes
The SZ and RSS sizes just dont seem to match the memory size according
to DB2. Also, after comparing many that have the same Application
Heap size on various machines they dont seem to have the same SZ or
RSS as I would expect. For instance, machine A and B both had db2
agents with "Application Heap" size of 1.7M bytes but the "PS" SIZE
said 4500 on one machine and 8400 on the other (I am rounding the
numbers up).