The following abbreviated example shows output from the sar -q command. If %runocc is high (greater than 90 percent) and runq-sz is greater than 2, the CPU is heavily loaded and response is degraded. In this case, additional CPU capacity may be required to obtain acceptable system response.
$ sar -q SunOS venus 5.8 Generic sun4u 09/07/99 00:00:00 runq-sz %runocc swpq-sz %swpocc 01:00:00 02:00:02 03:00:00 1.0 0 04:00:00 05:00:01 1.0 0 06:00:00 Average 1.3 0 |