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Locating Server Process Hogs
Locating Disk Space Hogs
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NetWare Remote Manager Administration Guide
Server process hogs (or NLM programs that use a lot of server processes) are
indicated on the Server Health Monitoring page by a suspect or bad status for
the Available Server Processes indicator.
To find server process hogs, do the following:
1
Under the Diagnose Server heading, click the Profile/Debug link.
This displays the Profiling and Debug Information page that shows
information about active and suspended threads, their states, the owning
NLM program, and execution times.
2
On the Profiling and Debug Information page, click one of the thread
name links that has a Delayed status.
This displays the Thread Information page.
3
From the Thread Information page, view the Suspend Description field.
This information should indicate what method the thread last used to
yield the processor. A short trace of stack information that the server was
executing at the time the thread suspended is also displayed.
4
Click the stack address and perform some basic stack tracing (if you are
familiar with interpreting assembly code).
You can trace the service process that is in use by the NLM to see how it
is actually using the process and you can look at the stack and see what
the thread is using the service process for.
To locate disk space hogs (traditional volumes only), do the following:
1
Under the Manage Server heading, click the Volumes link.
This displays the Volume Management page that shows the volumes and
local server partition information.
2
On the Volume Management page, click one of the volumes listed.
This displays a list of all the subdirectories and files that are on that
volume.
3
Sort the listing by disk space usage by clicking the Size heading. The
highest user will be at the top of the sorted list.