It increases from 15 to 20 the number of processes to check in order to make sure no process is left out, it filters out lines not showing processes but the load average in the 9th column and it uses the right Solaris awk implementation:
If you are running Solaris 11, here is a way to prepend a timestamp to the output:
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)
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)
Can someone please explain me the "TIME" field of the output of "prstat -p<pid>" command ? The man page says it is "The cumulative execution time for the process". Does it mean how many hrs:min:sec the process is running ? If so then I'm not getting the desired output.
Can someone pls help me in... (5 Replies)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Hi,
Recently i have write a simple script to capture CPU high usage based on prstat but i found out that it did capture correctly. I need to capture the rows that contains CPU usage more than 3%. Below line which i thought will capture CPU usage based CPU column in prstat(9th parameter) which is... (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
topsysproc
topsysproc(1m) USER COMMANDS topsysproc(1m)NAME
topsysproc - top syscalls by process name. Uses DTrace.
SYNOPSIS
topsysproc [-Cs] [interval [count]]
DESCRIPTION
This program continually prints a report of the number of system calls by process name, and refreshes the display every 1 second or as
specified at the command line. Similar data can be fetched with "prstat -m".
Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges can run this command.
OPTIONS -C don't clear the screen
-s print per second values
EXAMPLES
Default output, 1 second updates,
# topsysproc
Print every 5 seconds,
# topsysproc 5
Print a scrolling output,
# topsysproc -C
FIELDS
load avg
load averages, see uptime(1)
syscalls
total syscalls in this interval
syscalls/s
syscalls per second
PROCESS
process name
COUNT total syscalls in this interval
COUNT/s
syscalls per second
NOTES
There may be several PIDs with the same process name.
DOCUMENTATION
See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may include full worked examples with ver-
bose descriptions explaining the output.
EXIT
topsysproc will run until Ctrl-C is hit.
AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia]
SEE ALSO dtrace(1M), prstat(1M)version 0.90 Jun 13, 2005 topsysproc(1m)