#32 Opensolaris 2008.05 / Orca 535

[Rodney McGee]

tmcgee@test:~# /opt/RICHPse/bin/se -DWATCH_OS /usr/local/lib/orca/orcallator.se
Fatal: error reading data: Near line 62

tmcgee@test:~# uname -a
SunOS test 5.11 snv_86 i86pc i386 i86xpv Solaris

tmcgee@test:~# cat /usr/local/lib/orca/orcallator.se | grep Rev
// $LastChangedRevision: 535 $

tmcgee@test:~# /opt/RICHPse/bin/se -v
se - Version 3.5.0-dev-3 (03:41 PM 05/23/08) for amd64

I have attached a truss trace which I thought might help. I am not really sure what other data would be useful.

[Rodney McGee]

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se debug output

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After doing some further testing a lot of example scripts do work for example:
pwatch.se
disks.se
vmstat.se
net.se
iostat.se

Curiously when I run netstat.se I get an error message about tcp_mib.

tmcgee@test:/opt/RICHPse/examples# se netstat.se
Fatal: kvm variable: kvm$tcp_mib has no address

This is also the same tcp_mib which is that last thing mentioned in the debug output of SE when I run the orcallator.se

tmcgee@test:/opt/RICHPse/examples# se orcallator.se 2>&1 output.debug.txt
tmcgee@test:/opt/RICHPse/examples# gzcat ~/output.debug.txt.gz | tail
GLOBAL_tcp = tcp$GLOBAL_tcp(STRUCTURE)
now = gethrtime()
interval = (now<798896747768525> - then<0>) * <1e-09>
if (interval<798897> == <0>)
tmp = mib$tcp(STRUCTURE)

[Dagobert Michelsen]

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Hi Tim (?),

thanks for your bugreport. I'll have a look at this.

Thanks!

-- Dago

[Rodney McGee]

I have updated to the lastest OpenSolaris 2008.11 build and to the latest se package.
Same results, some se scripts work but especially network related ones seem to fail.

root@galactica /opt/RICHPse/examples # export PATH=$PATH:/opt/RICHPse/bin
root@galactica /opt/RICHPse/examples # se -v
se - Version 3.5.0 (02:27 PM 08/05/08) for amd64
root@galactica /opt/RICHPse/examples # uname -a
SunOS galactica 5.11 snv_97 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
root@galactica /opt/RICHPse/examples # se netstat.se
Fatal: kvm variable: kvm$tcp_mib has no address

[Dagobert Michelsen]

The tcp_mib structure is in newer versions of Solaris no longer directly addressable. Using the mib$tcp structure works however fine:

--- examples/netstat.se 2008-09-17 17:56:58.931403400 +0200
+++ /home/dam/netstat.se 2008-09-17 18:10:00.212128400 +0200
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
double connections;
double retranpercent;
int i;
- int fd;
+ int fd = -1;
int headed=0;
int interval = SAMPLE_INTERVAL;
int nnets;
@@ -41,13 +41,7 @@
}
refresh$(net);
nnets = net.net_count;
- if ((fd = open("/dev/mem", O_RDONLY)) != -1) {
- last = kvm$tcp_mib;
- close(fd);
- } else {
- printf("no root permissions - get tcp data with slow locking\n");
last = mib$tcp;
- }
n = time(0);
printf("Current tcp RtoMin is %d, interval %d, start %s", last.tcpRtoMin,
interval, ctime(&n));

This has to be adjusted at several places.

[Rodney McGee]

My goal is getting the orcallator.se (r535) script working. The main orca part that makes the graph seems to be working great. But I know you don't develop orca, so should I submit a bug with the orcaware people about updating their orcallator.se script, or is there other things to update with the RICHPse before that happens ?

root@galactica /usr/local/lib/orca # se orcallator.se
"orcallator.se", line 190: error: syntax error
"orcallator.se", line 190: fatal: Errors detected. Exiting.

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Rodney,

well, as luck goes I do have commit access to the Orca repository. I just talked to Richard Pettit, the original author of the SE Toolkit, about mib$tcp and kvm$tcp_mib. The use of kvm$tcp_mib was a performance enhancement at the time of a SPARCserver 1000, maybe 15 years ago and is likely not to be needed any more on modern machines. The is a problem on some of the scripts like netstat.se and needs fixing and I will open a separate bugreport for this, but this is not your problem with orcallator.se. You must not start orcallator directly as there are some environment-variables which must be set beforehand like
export COMPRESSOR=/usr/bin/gzip
mkdir /tmp/orca
export OUTDIR=/tmp/orca
When you set up the orcallator correctly as separate software, the script http://www.orcaware.com/svn/repos/orca/trunk/data_gatherers/orcallator/start_orcallator.sh.in will set all this up for you. Please try this and post if it works for you.

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I edited the start_orcallator.sh from
pids=`/usr/ucb/ps auxww | $AWK '/orcallator.se/ && !/awk/ {print $2}'`
to
pids=`ps -elf | $AWK '/orcallator.se/ && !/awk/ {print $4}'`

root@galactica ~ # ./start_orcallator.sh
Writing data into /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/galactica/
Starting logging
Fatal: error reading data: Near line 62

which runs this /opt/RICHPse/bin/se -DWATCH_OS -I/usr/local/lib/SE/3.5.0 /usr/local/lib/orca/orcallator.se
I noticed /usr/local/lib/SE/3.5.0 doesn't exist because it is not in orcallator yet
http://www.orcaware.com/svn/repos/orca/trunk/lib/SE/

I tried to edit the script so it runs this
/opt/RICHPse/bin/se -DWATCH_OS -I/usr/local/lib/SE/3.4 /usr/local/lib/orca/orcallator.se
root@galactica ~ # ./start_orcallator.sh
Writing data into /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/galactica/
Starting logging
Fatal: error reading data: Near line 62

root@galactica /usr/local/lib/SE # ls -l
total 6
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8 Jun 10 20:48 3.2.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8 Jun 10 20:48 3.3
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8 Jun 10 20:48 3.3.1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 7 Jun 10 20:48 3.4
root@galactica ~ # ls /usr/local/lib/SE/3.4/
live_rules.se orca_p_netstat_class.se orca_p_vmstat_class.se orca_process_class.se workinfo_class.se

What other info can I give you so that we can track this down.

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

your actions about replace the BSD-variant of 'ps' is correct. For the includes you can directly include /opt/RICHPse/include and remove the 'orca_'-prefix from the names of the files to be included. Then please add a '-d' option to the invocation of 'se' and post the last few lines so I can see where it stops.

Best regards

-- Dago

[Rodney McGee]

Edited the orca_ prefix out of orcallator.se

root@galactica ~ # ./start_orcallator.sh
Writing data into /usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/galactica/
Starting logging
/opt/RICHPse/bin/se -d -DWATCH_OS -I/opt/RICHPse/include /usr/local/lib/orca/orcallator.se
swap_rule.swap_avail = GLOBAL_pvm[0].swap_avail<0>
swap_rule.timestamp = timestamp<1222110722>
refresh$(swap_rule(STRUCTURE))
if (timestamp<1222110722> == <0>)
if (timestamp<1222110722> != lasttime<0>)
if (swap_avail<0> >= swap_waste<0>)
state = <0>
action = <There is a lot of unused swap space>
lasttime = timestamp<1222110722>
explanation = action<There is a lot of unused swap space>
if (timestamp<1222110722> == <0>)
if (timestamp<1222110722> != lasttime<1222110722>)
action = uninit<Rule initializing...>
explanation = uninit<Rule initializing...>
state = <0>
lasttime = timestamp<1222110722>
return ;
if (initialized<0> == <0>)
GLOBAL_tcp = tcp$GLOBAL_tcp(STRUCTURE)
now = gethrtime()
interval = (now<957550891946829> - then<0>) * <1e-09>
if (interval<957551> == <0>)
tmp = mib$tcp(STRUCTURE)
Fatal: error reading data: Near line 62

Found a couple of these in the include

root@galactica /opt/RICHPse/include # grep "mib\$tcp" *
tcp_class.se: mib2_tcp_t mib$tcp;
tcp_class.se: tmp = mib$tcp;

[Rodney McGee]

Fixed everything by changing all
mib$something
to
mib2$something

in orcallator.se and tcp_class.se

[Rodney McGee]

Oh and you can check it out here
http://mirror.lug.udel.edu
http://mirror.lug.udel.edu/orcallator/

Thanks for all the help

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

that's good to hear. I'll update the software and documentation accordingly.

Best regards

-- Dago