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System Administration Guide

Example--Checking Buffer Activity

The following 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 5.6 Generic sun4m    08/20/96
14:28:12 bread/s lread/s %rcache bwrit/s lwrit/s %wcache pread/s pwrit/s
14:29:12       0      14     100       6      17      67       0       0
14:30:12       0      12      99       6      16      65       0       0
14:31:12       0      12     100       6      16      65       0       0
 
Average        0      12     100       6      16      66       0       0