Hi Friends,

On HP-UX apparently there is limit of 1024 characters for the
display of entire command line using "ps -exx". I also tried
the pstat function pstat_getcommandline which has a limit of
1020 characters to store the process command line. I want to
know whether we could overcome this limit and see the process
in its entirety even though the command line exceeds 1024 char
limit ? Is it possible ??????? (I am on 11iV2.)


Thanks in advance,
Satish/

asatsi@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Friends,
>
> On HP-UX apparently there is limit of 1024 characters for the
> display of entire command line using "ps -exx". I also tried
> the pstat function pstat_getcommandline which has a limit of
> 1020 characters to store the process command line. I want to
> know whether we could overcome this limit and see the process
> in its entirety even though the command line exceeds 1024 char
> limit ? Is it possible ??????? (I am on 11iV2.)
>

The kernel only stores a maximum of 1024 characters, you can't get more
than what it has in the first place. If you need more, contact your
support representative and make an Enhancemnt Request, because
you'll need one or more patches developed to do this.

Don

I'm curious (always dangerous) but what is in those > 1020 characters
of command line?

rick jones
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OK, now that you have asked , it contains whole loads of java
arguments. Its a third party product I am working on , and I do not
have much idea about java and likes.

Cheers,
Satish/

Thanks for the reply Don.

Cheers,
Satish

kohamm@hotmaildot.com <pagare@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, now that you have asked , it contains whole loads of java
> arguments. Its a third party product I am working on , and I do not
> have much idea about java and likes.

Seems that there will probably always be _some_ sort of limit to the
length of the command line, which suggests a strategy not of raising
the bridge, but lowering the river. No idea if it is possible in your
specific case, but perhaps a bit of indirection - putting some
arguments into a file and parsing the file rather than the command
line, that sort of thing.

rick jones
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it is one of "Ring Around the Rosy" or perhaps "Duck Duck Goose."
- Rick Jones
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feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH...

Rick Jones wrote:
> kohamm@hotmaildot.com <pagare@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>OK, now that you have asked , it contains whole loads of java
>>arguments. Its a third party product I am working on , and I do not
>>have much idea about java and likes.
>
>
> Seems that there will probably always be _some_ sort of limit to the
> length of the command line,
[...]

IIRC the argv/envp size limit is 3MB on HP-UX (or at least that's
the limit I saw hard-coded in some kernel documentation).

To try to help the OP, you can use gdb to attach to your process
and print the argv.

Alternatively, for one-off usage and if you are on Itanium, you can
use caliper.

caliper total_cpu --duration 1 -a <pid>

The report (generated to stdout in this case) will show the command line.

I do not guarantee that Caliper will handle a 3MB argv array very
nicely.

Eric