System Administration Guide, Volume 2

Example--Checking Queue Activity

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