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HP-UX Reference > Sserialize(1)HP-UX 11i Version 2: December 2007 Update |
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NAMEserialize — force target process to run serially with other processes DESCRIPTIONThe serialize command is used to force the target process to run serially with other processes also marked by this command. The target process can be referred to by pid value, or it can be invoked directly on the command. Once a process has been marked by serialize, the process stays marked until process completion unless serialize is reissued on the serialized process with the -t option. The -t option causes the pid specified with the -p option to return to normal timeshare scheduling algorithms. This call is used to improve process throughput, since process throughput usually increases for large processes when they are executed serially instead of allowing each program to run for only a short period of time. By running large processes one at a time, the system makes more efficient use of the CPU as well as system memory, since each process does not end up constantly faulting in its working set, to only have the pages stolen when another process starts running. As long as there is enough memory in the system, processes marked by serialize behave no differently from other processes in the system. However, once memory becomes tight, processes marked by serialize are run one at a time with the highest priority processes being run first. Each process will run for a finite interval of time before another serialized process is allowed to run. RETURN VALUEserialize returns the following value:
ERRORSserialize fails under the following condition and sets errno (see errno(2)) to the following value:
EXAMPLESUse serialize to force a database application to run serially with other processes marked for serialization: serialize database_app Force a currently running process with a pid value of 215 to run serially with other processes marked for serialization: serialize -p 215 Return a process previously marked for serialization to normal timeshare scheduling. The pid of the target process for this example is 174: serialize -t -p 174 |
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