Re: pmkstat command not working

[Max Matveev <makc@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:23:33 -0400, Sai p Seshasayee wrote:

 S> Based on your mail, I understand that Linux hosts don't have the metrics 
 S> to run the "pmkstat" command. Does that mean that I can't use the
 S> command at all in Linux?
You can, it just not going to show all the information.

 S> Is there a way by which I could run that command on Linux by
 S> installing the required metrics ?
No. pmkstat was developed on Irix where few extra kernel metrics were
exported by the kernel. On Linux there is no direct equivalent of
those metrics. This is one of the reasons the command was moved out of
the way in /usr/share/pcp/bin.

max