System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

Example—Checking Kernel Memory Allocation (sar)

The following is an abbreviated example of sar -k output.


$ sar -k
SunOS venus 5.9 Generic sun4u    06/24/2001

00:00:00 sml_mem   alloc  fail  lg_mem   alloc  fail  ovsz_alloc  fail
01:00:00 2523136 1866512     0 18939904 14762364     0      360448     0
02:00:02 2523136 1861724     0 18939904 14778748     0      360448     0
03:00:00 2523136 1865664     0 18939904 14745884     0      360448     0
04:00:00 2523136 1867692     0 18939904 14746616     0      360448     0
05:00:01 2523136 1867208     0 18939904 14763700     0      360448     0
06:00:00 2523136 1867772     0 18939904 14779444     0      360448     0

Average  2724096 1791806     0 20089344 15434591     0      360448     0