Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide

To Change the Threshold Value for a Parameter

  1. Choose Setup from the Options menu.

    Performance Meter displays the Setup dialog box which contains a Threshold box for each parameter.

  2. Type a new threshold value for the relevant parameter and click Apply.

    Values below the new threshold value are now displayed using the color selected for below, and values above this threshold value are now displayed in the color selected for above.

Table 18-1 Default Threshold Settings
 Parameter Default Threshold Value
 CPU 50%
 Load 2 per second
 Disk 20 per second
 Page 8 per second
 Context 32 per second
 Swap 2 per second
 Interrupts 50 per second
 Packets 16 per second
 Collisions 2 per second
 Errors 2 per second