On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 08:09:56PM +0100, YOUNSI RIADH wrote:
> Hi
> In solaris 9 I used to use vmstat command to detect any cpu and memory
> performance problems by checking values for the following vmstat command
> outputs:
>               r of  kthr : Number of threads in run queue : 
>               id of cpu : Percentage usage of CPU time spent in idle
> time: 
>               sr of  memory : Memory page activity (Number of pages
> scaned): 
> 
> I also use iostat -xn command to detect performance problems with diks
> or metadevices by checking values for the following "iostat -xn" command
> outputs
> 
>               %w: The percentage of time there are transactions
> waiting for service..
>               wsvc_t: average service time in wait  queue,in
> milliseconds. Time spent by a transaction in queue. 
> 
> As I heard that such commands may disturb the running system if they are
> run periodically  through crontab jobs 
> 
> Could you please tell me if there are equivalent commands in solaris 10
> using dtrace that can be used to identify performance problems cpu,
> memory and disks

There are still vmstat, prstat etc in Solaris 10. And despite the
existence of DTrace in S 10 they are still _very_ usefull. Usually
if you are hunting for performance problems you still start with them
to narrow the area where they (problems) might exists.

There is however more :-). Just for start:
http://przemol.blogspot.com/2007/10/sunsolve-deeper-look-into-vmstat.html

Regards
przemol

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