The MONITOR PROCESSES command initiates monitoring of the
PROCESSES class, which displays information about all processes
in the system.
In a multifile summary request, the classes CLUSTER and PROCESSES
are ignored. If these classes are the only classes specified on
the command line, MONITOR does not recognize them and displays a
"no classes specified" error message.
Beginning in OpenVMS Version 8.3, four new qualifiers (
/TOPKERNEL, /TOPEXECUTIVE, /TOPSUPERVISOR, and /TOPUSER) allow
you to monitor per-process-based modes usage. These qualifiers
are useful in helping to identify the top consumers of the
various CPU modes. For example, if the MONITOR MODES command
reveals that an excessive amount of supervisor mode is being
used, the new MONITOR PROCESSES/TOPSUPERVISOR display reveals
which process-and therefore, which user-is responsible.
Format
MONITOR PROCESSES
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