ANALYZE

Displays information about processes being executed on a specified port:

• The port's status.

• The state of the Virtual return stack.

• The state of the DataBasic return stack, if relevant.

• Any item lock for which the port is waiting.

• Item locks held by the port.

• Any group lock for which the port is waiting.

• Group locks held by the port.

• Any item deadlocks.

• The host status of the reality process.

Syntax

ANALYZE port (options

Syntax Elements

port The number of the required port (but see option H).

Options

A Specifies that details of any item locks should include the name of the account containing the file concerned.

H Specifies that port is a host process ID.

U UNIX only. Include the host status of the reality process running on the specified port; that is, the result of executing ps -lp [processId] on the host, where processId is the host process ID.

Restrictions

Can be run from the SYSMAN account only. The user must have SYS1 or SYS2 privilege.

Operation

ANALYZE displays the following information:

• The port's status, under the following headings:

  Heading	Description
  	If present, indicates the type of process running on the specified port - one of the following: * This port (that is, the port specified is that which issued the ANALYZE command). T TIPH process. D Despooler process. S Server process.
  PORT	The number of the port from which the process is executed.
  PROCESS	The UNIX/Windows process-id.
  STATUS	Reports the status of the associated port, either as, Connected  where a user is logged on or Reserved  where a user is logging on.
  EVENT	The Event Count. A changing Event Count indicates that a process is still active, even if the major state is always the same when interrogated by ANALYZE. If the Event Count does not change the process is hung or inactive, or is busy processing (that is, the major state is 'Running').
  MAJOR STATE	Reports the high level progress of the associated process, indicating any high level service function which is being performed, for example, 'Item Lock' or 'Item Read'. Such functions make one or more system calls and are therefore subject to being blocked. When not performing such a function, the Major State is set to 'Running'.
  MINOR STATE	Reports the low level progress of the associated process during the current Major State (high level service function) and indicates its state at each system call which may cause a 'blocking' situation, for example, while waiting for an item lock or performing a disk read. The minor state is set at the start of each system call and cleared on successful completion.

  Example:

     Port Process... Status... Event Major State..... Minor State.....
      402       3824 Connected   577 Port Read        System read

• The state of the Virtual return stack - a space-separated list of stack entries. Each entry shows the mode class, mode number, and either a line number or a comma. The left-most entry is the top of the stack. For example:

  Return Stack
  CORA:1996,? ENGLISH*CONV:90,86 BASIC:2252,158

  This shows three stack entries, with the mode classes Cora  (top of stack), ENGLISH*CONV  and BASIC.

• The state of the DataBasic return stack, if relevant. The top entry is the top of the stack. Each entry contains the following:

  • The context level of the entry. Not shown for Service entries.

  • The type of entry - one of Call, Run, Perform, Service, Enter  or Chain. Service  shows that the process has entered the Reality host code.

  • The program or subroutine name.

  Note

  Internal subroutine calls and line numbers are not shown.

  For example:

  DataBasic Stack:
       Service Port Read
    0  Call    DSM.SUB
    0  Run     DSM

  This shows three stack entries, a Service call (top of stack), a subroutine call to DSM.SUB and the program DSM.

• If the port is waiting on an item lock, details of that lock are displayed. For example:

  Port is waiting on item locked by Port 401
  00002984:00000324 WAIT EMC CC

  The first 8-digit hexadecimal number is the base frame ID of the file and the second, the item hash. The second column is always WAIT. The third column contains the file name and the fourth column, the item-id.

  If the A option has been included, the file name is preceded by the account containing the file.

• If the port is holding any item locks, these are listed. For example:

  Port owns the following item locks
  00002984:E30AE798       EMC ITEM.ONE
  00002984:4F5D9FC4       EMC ITEM.FIVE
  00002984:000022CF   404 EMC ITEM.NINE
                      406
  00002984:B47D99A0       EMC ITEM.EIGHT
  00002984:00017F28   405 EMC ITEM.TEN

  Each entry is similar to that for an item lock on which the port is waiting. However, column 2 shows the port numbers of any ports waiting on the lock. Note that in the example, lock 00002984:000022CF has two ports waiting on it (404 & 406).

• If the port is waiting on a group lock, details of that lock are displayed. For example:

  Port is waiting on Group Lock held by Port 401
  00000027:00000002

  The first 8-digit hexadecimal number is the base frame ID of the file and the second, the group number.

• If the port is holding any group locks, these are listed. For example:

  Port owns the following Group Locks
  00000027:00000002 U

  The first 8-digit hexadecimal number is the base frame ID of the file and the second, the group number. The second column is U  for an update lock or R  for a read lock.

• If there any item deadlocks are detected, warning messages are displayed. For example:

  WARNING A deadlock exists between this port and port 403

  WARNING Detected deadlock chain with ports 405 404 403

• On UNIX hosts, if the U option is used, the host status of the reality process is shown. For example:

         F S UID   PID  PPID   C PRI NI ADDR    SZ    WCHAN    TTY  TIME CMD
    200801 A 202 31262 27388   0  60 20 212b0 20868           pts/1  0:00 reality

  Refer to the documentation for the ps UNIX command for details of the information displayed.

Examples

:ANALYZE 402
   Port Process... Status... Event Major State..... Minor State.....
    402       3988 Connected   598 Port Read        System read
Return Stack
SYSTEM:6,? SYSTEM:6,85 BASIC:2239,103
DataBasic Stack:
     Service Port Read
  0  Call    FQM.SUB
  0  Run     FQM

In this example, the ANALYZE command has displayed the details of the process on port 402 which is running the FQM TCL command and is currently waiting for user input.

:ANALYZE 404 (A
   Port Process... Status... Event Major State..... Minor State.....
    404       4172 Connected   268 Lock Item        Lock Wait
Return Stack
CORA:1992,? SYSTEM:1311,48 BASIC:2231,92
DataBasic Stack:
  0  Run     NEST-LOCKS
  0  Perform NEST-LOCKS
  1  Run     NEST-LOCKS
     Service Lock Item
Port is waiting on item locked by Port 403
00002984:00000324 WAIT TEST EMC CC
Port owns the following item locks
00002984:000022CF   403 SYSMAN EMC CCC
WARNING A deadlock exists between this port and port 403

In this example, the ANALYZE command has displayed the details of the process on port 404 which is running a DataBasic program called NEST-LOCKS. The program is waiting on an item locked by port 403 and holds a lock on the item CCC in file EMC. There is a deadlock between ports 404 and 403.