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Operating Systems Solaris Howto troubleshoot Perfomance using vmstat & iostat Post 302299668 by stevie_velvet on Friday 20th of March 2009 06:19:27 PM
Old 03-20-2009
Howto troubleshoot Perfomance using vmstat & iostat

Can anyone tell me what to look for in terms of abnormal numbers on vmstat or iostat?
I have a box with figures pbelow, how would I tell if it's underperforming & what remedies \ perfomance tuning could I perform?


thanks all

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-vmstat 5 5
kthr memory page disk faults cpu
r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr s6 sd sd sd in sy cs us sy id
0 0 0 20258552 6355368 326 278 1998 10 11 0 9 0 23 0 0 984 1552 655 6 2 92
0 0 0 20267192 5904752 388 643 3455 0 0 0 0 0 63 0 0 2610 3075 1365 22 3 75
0 0 0 20269656 5906752 449 50 5142 14 13 0 0 0 89 0 0 2792 2767 1418 11 2 87
0 0 0 20266528 5903616 77 642 38 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 1502 6421 1097 26 3 71
0 0 0 20268256 5905280 4 991 18 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 1086 2827 797 15 2 83

-iostat 5 5
tty sd6 ssd3 ssd5 ssd7 cpu
tin tout kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv us sy wt id
0 1 0 0 0 547 23 14 7 0 6 7 0 5 6 2 7 84
0 47 0 0 0 628 15 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 94
0 16 0 0 0 2263 84 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 4 4 75

0 16 0 0 0 1941 89 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 3 4 86
0 16 0 0 0 2446 142 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 4 10 69
 

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