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Old 02-13-2007
How to get system memory usage like top
Hello all
im working on sunos machine that dont have the top installed and can't be
install , now i need to get information similar to what top gives me about the cpu usage and so
can it be done somehow else where ?
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Old 02-13-2007
Sure, you are looking for prstat
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Old 02-13-2007
Hi and thanks for the reply
is there any way to extract the total memory and cpu from all this data
into single liner ?
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Old 02-13-2007
What do you mean by total memory ? If its the amount of physical memory you'd better use prtdiag if its available on your system
Code:
/usr/platform/`uname -m`/sbin/prtdiag

 
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