System Administration Guide

Examples--Checking Disk Activity

These two examples illustrate the sar -d output. The first example is from a computer with a non-SCSI (Small Computer System Interface, pronounced "scuzzy") integral disk; that is, a disk that does not use a SCSI interface. This example illustrates data being transferred from a hard disk (hdsk-0) to the floppy disk (fdsk-0).


$ sar -d
SunOS venus 5.6 Generic sun4m    08/20/96
13:46:28  device %busy avque r+w/s blks/s  avwait  avserv
13:46:58  hdsk-0    6   1.6     3      5    13.8    23.7
          fdsk-0   93   2.1     2      4   467.8   444.0
13:47:28  hdsk-0   13   1.3     4      8    10.8    32.3
          fdsk-0  100   3.1     2      5   857.4   404.1
13:47:58  hdsk-0   17    .7     2     41      .6    48.1
          fdsk-0  100   4.4     2      6  1451.9   406.5
Average   hdsk-0   12   1.2     3     18     8.4    34.7
          fdsk-0   98   3.2     2      5   925.7   418.2

The following example is from a computer with SCSI integral disks; that is, disks that use a SCSI interface. The example illustrates data being transferred from one SCSI hard disk (sd00-0) to another SCSI integral disk (sd00-1).


$ sar -d
SunOS venus 5.6 Generic sun4m    08/20/96
14:16:24  device %busy avque r+w/s blks/s  avwait  avserv
14:16:52 sd00-0      2   1.0     1      3     0.0    17.9
         sd00-1      6   1.1     3      5     2.0    23.9
14:17:21 sd00-0      2   1.0     1      2     0.0    19.6
         sd00-1      6   1.1     3      5     0.2    24.3
14:17:48 sd00-0      3   1.0     1      3     0.3    18.3
         sd00-1      7   1.1     3      5     1.3    25.4
14:18:15 sd00-0      3   1.0     1      3     0.0    17.2
         sd00-1      5   1.0     2      5     0.0    21.6
Average  sd00-0      2   1.0     1      3     0.1    18.2
         sd00-1      6   1.0     3      5     0.9    23.0