The following abbreviated example of sar -b output shows that the %rcache and %wcache buffers are not causing any slowdowns, because all the data is within acceptable limits.
$ sar -b SunOS venus 5.8 Generic sun4u 09/07/99 00:00:00 bread/s lread/s %rcache bwrit/s lwrit/s %wcache pread/s pwrit/s 01:00:00 0 0 100 0 0 55 0 0 02:00:02 0 0 100 0 0 55 0 0 03:00:00 0 0 100 0 0 72 0 0 04:00:00 0 0 100 0 0 56 0 0 05:00:01 0 0 100 0 0 55 0 0 06:00:00 0 0 100 0 0 55 0 0 Average 0 0 94 0 0 64 0 0 |