Example--Checking Queue Activity

The following 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 5.6 Generic sun4m    08/20/96
14:28:12 runq-sz %runocc swpq-sz %swpocc
14:29:12     1.2      53    1       100
14:30:12     1.3      38
14:31:12     1.1      37
 
Average      1.2      43