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The qualifiers used on the SHOW POOL command determine which displays are generated. The default is the pool layout display, followed by the full pool packet display, followed by the pool summary display, these being generated in turn for Nonpaged Pool, Bus-Addressable Pool (if it exists in the system or dump being analyzed), and then Paged Pool.

If a range, type, or subtype is specified, then the pool layout display is not generated, and the pool summary display is a summary only for the range and/or type/subtype, and not for the entire pool.

Note that not all displays are relevant for all pool types. For example, Paged Pool has no lookaside lists, so the Paged Pool statistics display consists only of variable free pool information. And since there is a single ring buffer for all pools, only one ring buffer display is generated even if all pools are being displayed.

Packet-type

Each packet of pool has a type field (a byte containing a value in the range of 0-255). Many of these type values have names associated that are defined in $DYNDEF in SYS$LIBRARY:LIB.MLB. The packet-type specified in the /TYPE qualifier of the SHOW POOL command can either be the value of the pool type or its associated name.

Some pool packet-types have an additional subtype field (also a byte containing a value in the range of 0-255), many of which also have associated names. The packet-type specified in the /SUBTYPE qualifier of the SHOW POOL command can either be the value of the pool type or its associated name. However, if given as a value, a /TYPE qualifier (giving a value or name) must also be specified. Note also that /TYPE and /SUBTYPE are interchangeable if the packet-type is given by name. Table 4-15 shows several examples.

Table 4-15 /TYPE and /SUBTYPE Qualifier Examples
/TYPE and /SUBTYPE Qualifiers Meaning
/TYPE = CI All CI packets regardless of subtype
/TYPE = CI_MSG All CI packets with subtype CI_MSG
/TYPE = MISC/SUBTYPE = 120 All MISC packets with subtype 120
/TYPE = 0 or /TYPE = UNKNOWN All packets with an unknown TYPE/SUBTYPE combination

Examples

This example shows the Nonpaged Pool portion of the default SHOW POOL display. 


2. SDA> SHOW POOL/TYPE=IPC/HEADER 8156E140:815912C0

Non-Paged Dynamic Storage Pool
------------------------------

Dump of packets allocated from Non-Paged Pool
---------------------------------------------

   Packet type/subtype     Start    Length   RAD                    Header contents
-------------------------  -------- -------- ---   -----------------------------------------------------
IPC_TDB                    8156E140 00000040  00   81591180 057B0040 00000040 81591180  ..Y.@...@.{...Y.
IPC_LIST                   815838C0 00009840  00   004C0200 087B9840 0057A740 8158D100  .ÑX.@§W.@.{...L.
IPC_LIST                   8158D100 00001840  00   00040400 087B1840 00570F00 8158E940  @éX...W.@.{.....
IPC_LIST                   8158E940 00002840  00   00140200 087B2840 0056F6C0 81591180  ..Y.ÀöV.@({.....
IPC_TPCB                   81591180 00000080  00   00000000 067B0080 0056CE80 81591200  ..Y..ÎV...{.....
IPC                        81591200 000000C0  00   00000000 007B00C0 0056CE00 815912C0  À.Y..ÎV.À.{.....

Summary of Non-Paged Pool contents
----------------------------------

    Packet type/subtype        Packet count      Packet bytes    Percent
---------------------------  ----------------  ----------------  --------
IPC                          00000006          0000DA40          (100.0%)
  IPC                                00000001          000000C0    (0.3%)
  IPC_TDB                            00000001          00000040    (0.1%)
  IPC_TPCB                           00000001          00000080    (0.2%)
  IPC_LIST                           00000003          0000D8C0   (99.3%)

Total space used: 0000DA40 (55872.) bytes out of 00023180 (143744.) bytes
  in 00000006 (6.) packets

Total space utilization: 38.9%

This example shows how a pool packet type and a range of addresses can be specified. 


3. SDA> SHOW POOL/STATISTICS

Non-Paged Pool statistics for RAD 00
------------------------------------

        On-RAD deallocations (all RADs):                    1221036
        Total deallocations (all RADs):                     1347991
        Percentage of on-RAD deallocations:                   90.6%

Variable list statistics
------------------------

        Number of packets on variable list:                       7
        Total bytes on variable list:                       3613376
        Smallest packet on variable list:                       256
        Largest packet on variable list:                    3598016
        Bytes allocated from variable list:                 2140480
        Times pool expanded:                                      0

Lookaside list statistics
-------------------------

                      List   Packets     Packets    Operation   Allocation  Allocation
  Listhead address    size   (approx)    (actual)   sequence #   attempts    failures    Deallocs
  -----------------   ----  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------  ----------
  FFFFFFFF.81008870     64           5           5       10057       10549         492       10062
  FFFFFFFF.81008878    128          21          21         366        4881        4515         387
  FFFFFFFF.81008880    192          33          33       27376       27542         166       27409
  FFFFFFFF.81008888    256           4           4        8367        8476         118        8362

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This example shows the Nonpaged Pool portion of the SHOW POOL/STATISTICS display.

This example shows the output of the SHOW POOL/RING_BUFFER display.

SHOW PORTS

Displays those portions of the port descriptor table (PDT) that are port independent.

Format

SHOW PORTS [/qualifier[,...]]

Parameters

None.

Qualifiers

/ADDRESS=pdt-address

Displays the specified port descriptor table (PDT). You can find the pdt-address for any active connection on the system in the PDT summary page display of the SHOW PORTS command. This command also defines the symbol PE_PDT. The connection descriptor table (CDT) addresses are also stored in many individual data structures related to System Communications Services (SCS) connections, for instance, in the path block displays of the SHOW CLUSTER/SCS command.

/BUS=bus-address

Displays bus (LAN device) structure data.

/CHANNEL=channel-address

Displays channel (CH) data.

/DEVICE

Displays the network path description for a channel.

/MESSAGE

Displays the message data associated with a virtual circuit (VC).

/NODE=node

Shows only the virtual circuit block associated with the specific node. When you use the /NODE qualifier, you must also specify the address of the PDT using the /ADDRESS qualifier.

/VC=vc-address

Displays the virtual circuit data.

Description

The SHOW PORTS command provides port-independent information from the port descriptor table (PDT) for those CI ports with full System Communications Services (SCS) connections. This information is used by all SCS port drivers.

Note that the SHOW PORTS command does not display similar information about UDA ports, BDA ports, and similar controllers.

The SHOW PORTS command also defines symbols for PEDRIVER based on the cluster configuration. These symbols include the following information:

  • Virtual circuit (VC) control blocks for each of the remote systems
  • Bus data structure for each of the local LAN adapters
  • Some of the data structures used by both PEDRIVER and the LAN drivers

The following symbols are defined automatically:

  • VC_nodename---Example: VC_NODE1, address of the local node's virtual circuit to node NODE1.
  • CH_nodename---The preferred channel for the virtual circuit. For example, CH_NODE1, address of the local node's preferred channel to node NODE1.
  • BUS_busname---Example: BUS_ETA, address of the local node's bus structure associated with LAN adapter ETA0.
  • PE_PDT---Address of PEDRIVER's port descriptor table.
  • MGMT_VCRP_busname---Example: MGMT_VCRP_ETA, address of the management VCRP for bus ETA.
  • HELLO_VCRP_busname---Example: HELLO_VCRP_ETA, address of the HELLO message VCRP for bus ETA.
  • VCIB_busname---Example: VCIB_ETA, address of the VCIB for bus ETA.
  • UCB_LAVC_busname---Example: UCB_LAVC_ETA, address of the LAN device's UCB used for the local-area OpenVMS Cluster protocol.
  • UCB0_LAVC_busname---Example: UCB0_LAVC_ETA, address of the LAN device's template UCB.
  • LDC_LAVC_busname---Example: LDC_LAVC_ETA, address of the LDC structure associated with LAN device ETA.
  • LSB_LAVC_busname---Example: LSB_LAVC_ETA, address of the LSB structure associated with LAN device ETA.

These symbols equate to system addresses for the corresponding data structures. You can use these symbols, or an address, in SHOW PORTS qualifers that require an address, as for example: 


SDA >SHOW PORTS/BUS=BUS_ETA

The SHOW PORTS command produces several displays. The initial display, the PDT summary page, lists the PDT address, port type, device name, and driver name for each PDT. Subsequent displays provide information taken from each PDT listed on the summary page.

You can use the /ADDRESS qualifier to the SHOW PORTS command to produce more detailed information about a specific port. The first display of the SHOW PORTS/ADDRESS command duplicates the last display of the SHOW PORTS command, listing information stored in the port's PDT. Subsequent displays list information about the port blocks and virtual circuits associated with the port.

Examples

#1 

SDA > SHOW PORTS
VMScluster data structures
--------------------------

                  --- PDT Summary Page ---

 PDT Address          Type         Device          Driver Name
 -----------          ----         -------         -----------

  80E2A180             pn          PNA0            SYS$PNDRIVER
  80EC3C70             pe          PEA0            SYS$PEDRIVER

                  --- Port Descriptor Table (PDT) 80E2A180 ---

Type: 09 pn
Characteristics: 0000

Msg Header Size          104  Flags               0000  Message Sends    3648575
Max Xfer Bcnt       00100000  Counter CDRP    00000000  Message Recvs    4026887
Poller Sweep              21  Load Vector     80E2DFCC  Mess Sends NoFP  3020422
Fork Block W.Q.     80E2A270  Load Class            60  Mess Recvs NoFP  3398732
UCB Address         80E23380  Connection W.Q. 80E4BF94  Datagram Sends         0
ADP Address         80E1BF00  Yellow Q.       80E2A2E0  Datagram Recvs         0
Max VC timeout            16  Red Q.          80E2A2E8  Portlock        80E1ED80
SCS Version                2  Disabled Q.     80FABB74  Res Bundle Size      208
                              Port Map        00000001

                  --- Port Descriptor Table (PDT) 80EC3C70 ---

Type: 03 pe
Characteristics: 0000

Msg Header Size           32  Flags               0000  Message Sends     863497
Max Xfer Bcnt       FFFFFFFF  Counter CDRP    00000000  Message Recvs     886284
Poller Sweep              30  Load Vector     80EDBF8C  Mess Sends NoFP   863497
Fork Block W.Q.     80EC3D60  Load Class            10  Mess Recvs NoFP   886284
UCB Address         80EC33C0  Connection W.Q. 80EFF5D4  Datagram Sends         0
ADP Address         00000000  Yellow Q.       80EC3DD0  Datagram Recvs         0
Max VC timeout            16  Red Q.          80EC3DD8  Portlock        00000000
SCS Version                2  Disabled Q.     812E72B4  Res Bundle Size        0
                              Port Map        00000000

This example illustrates the default output of the SHOW PORTS command.

#2 

SDA > SHOW PORTS/ADDRESS=80EC3C70
VMScluster data structures
--------------------------

                  --- Port Descriptor Table (PDT) 80EC3C70 ---

Type: 03 pe
Characteristics: 0000

Msg Header Size           32  Flags               0000  Message Sends     864796
Max Xfer Bcnt       FFFFFFFF  Counter CDRP    00000000  Message Recvs     887086
Poller Sweep              30  Load Vector     80EDBF8C  Mess Sends NoFP   864796
Fork Block W.Q.     80EC3D60  Load Class            10  Mess Recvs NoFP   887086
UCB Address         80EC33C0  Connection W.Q. 80EFF5D4  Datagram Sends         0
ADP Address         00000000  Yellow Q.       80EC3DD0  Datagram Recvs         0
Max VC timeout            16  Red Q.          80EC3DD8  Portlock        00000000
SCS Version                2  Disabled Q.     812E72B4  Res Bundle Size        0
                              Port Map        00000000
                              Port Map        00000000

                 --- Port Block 80EC4540 ---

Status: 0001 authorize
VC Count: 20
Secs Since Last Zeroed: 77020

SBUF Size             824     LBUF Size         5042     Fork Count     1943885
SBUF Count             28     LBUF Count           1     Refork Count         0
SBUF Max              768     LBUF Max           384     Last Refork   00000000
SBUF Quo               28     LBUF Quo             1     SCS Messages   1154378
SBUF Miss            1871     LBUF Miss         3408     VC Queue Cnt    361349
SBUF Allocs       1676801     LBUF Allocs      28596     TQE Received    770201
SBUFs In Use            2     LBUFs In Use         0     Timer Done      770201
Peak SBUF In Use      101     Peak LBUF In Use    10     RWAITQ Count     30288
SBUF Queue Empty        0     LBUF Queue Empty     0     LDL Buf/Msg      32868
TR SBUF Queue Empty     0     Ticks/Second        10     ACK Delay      1000000
No SBUF for ACK         0     Listen Timeout       8     Hello Interval      30

Bus Addr  Bus     LAN Address    Error Count Last Error   Time of Last Error
--------  ---  ----------------- ----------- ---------- -----------------------
80EC4C00  LCL  00-00-00-00-00-00           0
80EC5400  EXA  08-00-2B-17-CF-92           0
80EC5F40  FXA  08-00-2B-29-E1-40           0

                 --- Virtual Circuit (VC) Summary ---

VC Addr     Node    SCS ID  Lcl ID    Status Summary        Last Event Time
--------  --------  ------  ------  -----------------   -----------------------
80E566C0  ARUSHA     19617  223/DF  open,path            8-FEB-2001 16:01:57.58
80E98840  ETOSHA     19699  222/DE  open,path            8-FEB-2001 16:01:58.41
80E98A80  VMS        19578  221/DD  open,path            8-FEB-2001 16:01:58.11
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This example illustrates the output produced by the SHOW PORTS command for the PDT at address 80EC3C70.

SHOW PROCESS

Displays the software and hardware context of any process in the balance set.

Format

SHOW PROCESS {[process-name|ALL]
|/ADDRESS=pcb_address|/ID=nn |/INDEX=nn|/SYSTEM}
[/ALL|/BUFFER_OBJECTS|/CHANNEL
|/FANDLES|/FID_ONLY|/GSTX=index|/IMAGES [=ALL]
|/INVALID_PFN [=option]|/NEXT
|/NONMEMORY_PFN [=option]
|/LOCKS [/BRIEF]|/L1|/L2|/L3
|/PAGE_TABLES|/P0|/P1|/P2|/PT|/PCB
|/PERSONA [=address][/RIGHTS [/AUTHORIZED]]
|/PHD|/PROCESS_SECTION_TABLE|/PST
|/PTE_ADDRESS|/RDE [=id]
|/REGIONS [=id]
|/REGISTERS|/RMS [=option[,...]]|/SECTION_INDEX=n
|/SEMAPHORE|/THREADS
|/WORKING_SET_LIST]

Parameters

ALL

Information about all processes that exist in the system.

process-name

Name of the process for which information is to be displayed. Use of the process-name parameter, the /ADDRESS qualifier, the /INDEX qualifier, or the /SYSTEM qualifier causes the SHOW PROCESS command to perform an implicit SET PROCESS command, making the indicated process the current process for subsequent SDA commands. You can determine the names of the processes in the system by issuing a SHOW SUMMARY command.

The process-name can contain up to 15 letters and numerals, including the underscore (_) and dollar sign ($). If it contains any other characters, you must enclose the process-name in quotation marks (" ").

Qualifiers

/ADDRESS=pcb-address

Specifies the process control block (PCB) address of a process in order to display information about the process.

/ALL

Displays all information shown by the following qualifiers:
/CHANNEL
/BUFFER_OBJECTS
/FANDLES
/IMAGES=ALL
/LOCKS
/PAGE_TABLES
/PCB
/PERSONA/RIGHTS
/PHD
/PROCESS_SECTION_TABLE
/REGIONS
/REGISTERS
/RMS
/SEMAPHORE
/THREADS
/WORKING_SET_LIST

/AUTHORIZED

Used with the /PERSONA/RIGHTS qualifiers. See the /PERSONA/RIGHTS/AUTHORIZED description for the use of the /AUTHORIZED qualifier.

/BRIEF

When used with the /LOCKS qualifier, causes SDA to display each lock owned by the current process in brief format, that is, one line for each lock.

/BUFFER_OBJECTS

Displays all the buffer objects that a process has created.

/CHANNEL

Displays information about the I/O channels assigned to the process.

/FANDLES

Displays the data on the process's fast I/O handles.

/FID_ONLY

When used with /CHANNEL or /PROCESS_SECTION_TABLE (/PST), causes SDA to not attempt to translate the FID (File ID) to a file name when invoked with ANALYZE/SYSTEM.

/GSTX=index

When used with the /PAGE_TABLES qualifier, causes SDA to display only page table entries for the specific global section.

/IMAGES [= ALL]

For all images in use by this process, displays the address of the image control block, the start and end addresses of the image, the activation code, the protected and shareable flags, the image name, and the major and minor IDs of the image. The /IMAGES = ALL qualifier also displays the base, end, image offset, and section type for installed resident images in use by this process.

See the OpenVMS Linker Utility Manual and the Install utility chapter in the OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual for more information on images installed using the /RESIDENT qualifier.

/ID=nn

/INDEX=nn

Specifies the process for which information is to be displayed by its index into the system's list of software process control blocks (PCBs), or by its process identification (ID). You can supply the following values for nn:
  • The process index itself
  • The process identification (PID) or extended PID longword, from which SDA extracts the correct index. The PID or extended PID of any thread of a process with multiple kernel threads may be specified. Any thread-specific data displayed by SHOW PROCESS will be for the given thread.

To obtain these values for any given process, issue the SDA command SHOW SUMMARY/THREADS. The /ID=nn and /INDEX=nn qualifiers can be used interchangeably.

/INVALID_PFN [=option]

See the /PAGE_TABLES qualifier description for an explanation of /INVALID_PFN.

/L1

/L2

/L3

When used with the /PAGE_TABLES qualifier, /L1, /L2, /L3 cause SDA to display the page table entries at the level specified. /L3 is the default.

/LOCKS [/BRIEF]

Displays the lock management locks owned by the current process.

The /LOCKS [/BRIEF] qualifier produces a display similar in format to that produced by the SHOW LOCK command. See also the /BRIEF qualifier description. Also, Table 4-4 contains additional information.

/NEXT

Causes SDA to locate the next valid process in the process list and select that process. It there are no further valid processes in the process list, SDA returns an error.

/NONMEMORY_PFN [=option]

See the /PAGE_TABLES qualifier description for an explanation of /NONMEMORY_PFN.

/P0

/P1

/P2

When used with the /PAGE_TABLES qualifier, /P0, /P1, /P2 cause SDA to display only page table entries for the specified region. /P0 is the default.

/PAGE_TABLES

The /PAGE_TABLES qualifier has the following format: 


/PAGE_TABLES {range|[/P0(d)|/P1|/P2|/PT]
                       |/GSTX=index|/RDE=id
                       |/REGIONS=id
                       |/SECTION_INDEX=n|=ALL}
                       [/PTE_ADDRESS]
                       [/INVALID_PFN [={READONLY|WRITABLE}]
                       [/NONMEMORY_PFN [={READONLY|WRITABLE}]
                       {/L1|/L2|/L3(d)}
Displays the page tables of the process P0 (process), P1 (control), P2, or PT (page table) region, or, optionally, page table entries for a range of addresses. The page table entries at the level specified by /L1, /L2, or /L3 (the default) are displayed.

When /RDE=id or /REGIONS=id is used with /PAGE_TABLES, SDA displays the page tables for the address range of the specified address region. When you do not specify an ID, the page tables are displayed for all the process-permanent and user-defined regions.

You can express a range using the following syntax:

m Displays the single page table entry that corresponds to virtual address m.
m:n Displays the page table entries that correspond to the range of virtual addresses from m to n.
m;n Displays the page table entries that correspond to a range of n bytes, starting at virtual address m.
=ALL Use /PAGE_TABLES=ALL to display the entire page table or the process from address zero to the end of process-private page table space.

The /PTE_ADDRESS qualifier causes SDA to treat the specified range as PTE addresses instead of virtual addresses.

The /SECTION_INDEX=n qualifier causes SDA to display only the page table entries for the pages in the specified process section.

The /GSTX=index qualifier causes SDA to display only the page table entries for the pages in the specified global section.

The /INVALID_PFN qualifier which is valid on platforms that supply an I/O memory map, causes SDA to display only page table entries that map to PFNs that are not in the system's private memory, nor in Galaxy shared memory, nor are I/O access pages.

The /NONMEMORY_PFN qualifier, supported on all platforms, causes SDA to display only page table entries that are neither in the system's private memory nor in Galaxy shared memory.

Both /INVALID_PFN and /NONMEMORY_PFN qualifiers allow two optional keywords, READONLY and WRITABLE. If neither keyword is given, all relevant pages are displayed. If you specify READONLY, only pages marked for no write access are displayed. If you specify WRITABLE, only pages that allow write access are displayed. For example, SHOW PROCESS ALL/PAGE_TABLE=ALL/INVALID_PFN=WRITABLE would display all process pages (for all processes) whose protection allows write, but which map to PFNs that do not belong to this system.

/PCB

Displays the information contained in the process control block (PCB). This is the default behavior of the SHOW PROCESS command.

/PERSONA [=address]

Displays all persona security blocks (PSBs) held in the PERSONA ARRAY of the process, and then lists selected information contained in each initially listed PSB. The selected information includes the contents of the following cells inside the PSB:
Flags
Reference count
Execution mode
Audit status
Account name
UIC
Privileges
Rights enabled mask

If you specify a PSB address, the above information is provided for that specific PSB only.

/PERSONA/RIGHTS

Displays all the /PERSONA [=address] information and additional selected information, including all the Rights and their attributes currently held and active for each persona security block (PSB).

/PERSONA/RIGHTS/AUTHORIZED

Displays all the /PERSONA [=address] information and additional selected information, including all the Rights and their attributes authorized for each persona security block (PSB).

/PHD

Lists the information included in the process header (PHD).

/PPT

Is a synonym for /PAGE_TABLES.

/PROCESS_SECTION_TABLE [/SECTION_INDEX=id]

Lists the information contained in the process section table (PST). The /SECTION_INDEX=id qualifier used with /PROCESS_SECTION_TABLE displays the process section table entry for the specified section.

/PST

Is a synonym for /PROCESS_SECTION_TABLE.

/PT

When used with the /PAGE_TABLES qualifier, causes SDA to display the page table entries for the page table space of the process.

/PTE_ADDRESS

When used with the /PAGE_TABLES qualifier, specifies that the range is of PTE addresses instead of the virtual addresses mapped by the PTE.

/RDE [=id]

/REGIONS [=id]

Lists the information contained in the process region table for the specified region. If no region is specified, the entire table is displayed, including the process-permanent regions. The qualifiers /RDE [=id] and /REGIONS [=id] may be used interchangeably. When used with the /PAGE_TABLES, causes SDA to display on the page tables for the region given or all regions.

/REGISTERS

Lists the hardware context of the process, as reflected in the process registers stored in the hardware privileged context block (HWPCB), in its kernel stack, and possibly, in its PHD.

/RIGHTS

Used with the /PERSONA qualifier. See the /PERSONA/RIGHTS description for use of the /RIGHTS qualifier.

/RMS [=option[,...]]

Displays certain specified RMS data structures for each image I/O or process permanent I/O file the process has open. To display RMS data structures for process-permanent files, specify the PIO option to this qualifier.

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