1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, The last line of prstat shows load average. I am unable to figure out what actually it is. I have read the man pages and also googled, all for no use. Can somebody help me, as to what should be the avg. load of the system for best performance and how is this load of prstat calculated. (6 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, How can I do to use prstat command in a korn-shell ? Thanks a lot. Rgds. (4 Replies)

3. Solaris

Hi All, Operating System and Version: SunOS,Solaris 10 sparc(64 bit) RDBMS Version: 10.2.0.4.0 But the prstat logs of my system shows:- NPROC USERNAME SWAP RSS MEMORY TIME CPU 83 cemsbin 5204M 3604M 22% 53:46:00 6.7% 2 adm 244M 240M 1.5% 15:13:53 3.5% 77 oracle 17G 10G 65% 4:24:47... (0 Replies)

4. Solaris

Can some one please explain what does the memory part mean in the prstat logs? NPROC USERNAME SIZE RSS MEMORY TIME CPU 61 oracle 36G 33G 71% 109:44:26 12% 89 cemsbin 12G 9523M 20% 195:02:41 11% 2 adm 273M 199M 0.4% 47:05:42 2.3% 89 root ... (9 Replies)

5. Solaris

Good Evening everyone, I am confused about prstat O/P as it shows memory values which are different from actual value.Below is the O/P of prstat command and swap commands. NPROC USERNAME SIZE RSS MEMORY TIME CPU 48 root 2113M 1590M 1.2% 45:09.39 32% 31 daemon ... (7 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all, am writing a ksh script on solaris 9 to get the number of threads taken by a process. am using the prstat -p command to do this. output i get is : :"/export/home/user" > prstat -p 25528 | cut -f2 -d/ NLWP 203 Total: 1 processes, 203 lwps, load averages: 2.58, 3.24, 3.62... (2 Replies)

7. Solaris

hi all, was trying to figure out how busy my app was by looking at the performance of the app server. did a 'prstat -s rss' command to find the app servers using most memory. Found a command 'prstat -m' which is meant to show more details on each pid but the output of this command... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all, have a ksh script where i am doing a prstat -m -u osuser 1 1 >> $FILE_NAME but for some reason it only writes 15 lines wheres when i run the same command manually from command prompt it prints out 60 lines. why is it not writing the full 60 lines to the file ?? ta. (1 Reply)

9. Solaris

Hello We have a SPARC box running Solaris 10. We have 32 GB of physical memory, 32 GB of swap. Now i want to monitor memory usage for performance tuning. The box is running Sybase database. When I type prstat i get the following PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU... (4 Replies)

10. Solaris

Is there any scripts to capture the process which use more than 5% CPU from prstat output? (9 Replies)