Hi,
Does anyone know an easy way of getting the memory usage on a UNIX box? I basically want to find the total % available/in use. Running vmstat gives me 'avm' and 'free' but come in bytes and not percents. Didn't see a switch in sar that just gave me the memory stats similar to Sun's -r command.
Oh, and I need it to come one one line (like sar or vmstat).
Cheers,
J
Currently, we are looking for something that does exactly what you say... 
If you find something or i ... please be in touch. Regards.
Hi,
Have not found anything. Any luck on your side?
J
Glance PLUS is going to do what you need, but you'll have to pay for it depending of the version of HP-UX you have. I know that it comes with the Enterprise OE version of HP-UX but you have to buy a pack for Foundation OE version.
GlancePlus C.03.85.00 09:51:39 xxxx ia64 Current Avg High
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CPU Util SSSSSSUUUUUU | 24% 24% 24%
Disk Util FFFFFFFFFFF | 21% 23% 24%
Mem Util SSSSSSSSSSSSFFFFSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUUUUBBB | 32% 21% 32%
Swap Util UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRR | 54% 54% 54%
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PROCESS LIST Users= 312
User CPU Util Cum Disk Thd
Process Name PID PPID Pri Name ( 400% max) CPU IO Rate RSS Cnt
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xxxxxxx 8449 1 168 xxxx 42.2/21.7 7489.5 0.2/ 0.0 1.2mb 1
xx 26306 25776 198 xxxx 18.7/19.9 6877.4 0.0/99.0 1.9mb 1
xxxxxxx 8306 1 185 xxxx 1.8/19.9 6879.1 343/99.2 1.2mb 1
xx 24642 24641 148 xxxx 1.5/ 0.8 37.0 229/14.3 2.3mb 1
xx xx 15611 15610 154 xxxx 1.1/ 0.0 1.5 8.7/ 0.3 2.1mb 1
xxxxxxxx 1876 1 -16 xxxx 0.8/ 0.4 9881.3 0.0/ 0.0 22.3mb 2
xx 8066 8065 154 xxxx 0.6/ 0.0 0.6 6.8/ 0.1 2.7mb 1
xx 9621 9620 154 xxxx 0.6/ 0.0 2.7 8.7/ 0.2 3.7mb 1
xxxxxxxx 3742 3739 154 xxxx 0.4/ 0.1 0.3 3.4/ 0.0 21.8mb 2
xx 8332 8331 154 xxxx 0.4/ 0.2 3.7 2.1/ 0.8 3.5mb 1
xx 26653 26651 154 xxxx 0.4/ 0.0 1.2 7.6/ 0.1 5.0mb 1
xxxx 17820 17819 148 xxxx 0.2/ 0.5 11723.1 38.5/ 0.4 3.1mb 71
xxxxx 53 0 134 xxxx 0.0/ 4.3 100794 15.8/30.4 11.4mb 46
0 9.5 2
PxT pioneered a technique involving invoking pstat from perl. I have been studying the technique in preparation for a script I plan to write. I have tried to write a script to solve your requirement. I may have succeeded. I have only tested it on one system. The total physical memory matches what I from cstm. Free memory matches what I get from vmstat. And the percentages match what I get from glance. So it may be working. But no guarantees. 
#!/usr/contrib/bin/perl
local($PSTAT, $PSTAT_STATIC, $PSTAT_DYNAMIC) = (239, 2, 3);
local($struct_pst) = ("\0" x 156);
local($struct_psd) = ("\0" x 2904);
syscall($PSTAT, $PSTAT_STATIC, $struct_pst, length($struct_pst), 1, 0);
($pages, $psize) = (unpack("x16LL", $struct_pst));
syscall($PSTAT, $PSTAT_DYNAMIC, $struct_psd, length($struct_psd), 1, 0);
$free = unpack("x64L", $struct_psd);
$mb = ($psize / 1024) * $pages;
$mb = $mb / 1024;
print "Physical Memory: ",$mb,"MB\n";
print "Free Pages: ", $free, "\n";
$pcfree = 100. * $free /$pages;
$pcused = 100. - $pcfree;
printf(" %0.2f%% free %0.2f%% used \n", $pcfree, $pcused);
exit 0;