Solaris Application Programming, 1/e - Chapter 4 - Parent Directory

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between samples, and the number of samples you want. An example command line
for sar is shown in Example 4.20.
$ sar -A -o /tmp/sar.dat 5 10
Example 4.20 Example Command Line for sar
This instructs sar to do the following.
1. Record all types of events (-A).
2. Store the events in the file /tmp/sar.dat.
3. Record a sample at 5-second intervals.
4. Record a total of 10 samples.
When sar runs it will output data to the screen as well as to the data file, as
shown in Example 4.21.
$ sar -A -o /tmp/sar.dat 5 10
Example 4.21 Output from sar as It Runs
SunOS machinename 5.9 Generic_112233-01 sun4u 08/26/2003
21:07:39 %usr %sys %wio %idle
device %busy avque r+w/s blks/s avwait avserv
runq-sz %runocc swpq-sz %swpocc
bread/s lread/s %rcache bwrit/s lwrit/s %wcache pread/s pwrit/s
swpin/s bswin/s swpot/s bswot/s pswch/s
scall/s sread/s swrit/s fork/s exec/s rchar/s wchar/s
iget/s namei/s dirbk/s
rawch/s canch/s outch/s rcvin/s xmtin/s mdmin/s
proc-sz ov inod-sz ov file-sz ov lock-sz
msg/s sema/s
atch/s pgin/s ppgin/s pflt/s vflt/s slock/s
pgout/s ppgout/s pgfree/s pgscan/s %ufs_ipf
freemem freeswap
sml_mem alloc fail lg_mem alloc fail ovsz_alloc fail
21:07:44 50 1 0 50
fd0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0
ssd0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0
ssd0,a 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0
ssd0,b 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0
ssd0,c 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0
ssd0,h 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0
ssd1 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0
ssd1,a 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0
continues