System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

Example—Checking Kernel Memory Allocation (sar)

The following is an abbreviated example of sar -k output.


$ sar -k
SunOS touchstone 5.9 Generic sun4u    03/04/2003

00:00:05 sml_mem   alloc  fail  lg_mem   alloc  fail  ovsz_alloc  fail
01:00:03 1761280 1209760     0 4833280 3955104     0     2293760     0
02:00:05 1761280 1209020     0 4833280 3953360     0     2293760     0
03:00:03 1761280 1208712     0 4833280 3972096     0     2293760     0
04:00:03 1761280 1209796     0 4833280 3976432     0     2293760     0
05:00:03 1761280 1207708     0 4833280 3976864     0     2293760     0
06:00:04 1761280 1208112     0 4833280 3977200     0     2293760     0
07:00:04 1761280 1209024     0 4833280 3977200     0     2293760     0
08:00:04 1761280 1208932     0 4833280 4035120     0     2293760     0
08:20:04 1761280 1210480     0 4833280 4035120     0     2293760     0
08:40:04 1761280 1210592     0 4833280 4035968     0     2293760     0
09:00:03 1761280 1212440     0 4833280 4039024     0     2293760     0
09:20:04 1761280 1214388     0 4833280 4043792     0     2293760     0
09:40:04 1761280 1210760     0 4833280 4041744     0     2293760     0
10:00:05 1761280 1208192     0 4833280 4040496     0     2293760     0
10:20:03 1761280 1213404     0 4833280 4046576     0     2293760     0
10:40:02 1761280 1212184     0 4833280 4046576     0     2293760     0

Average  1761280 1210219     0 4833280 4009542     0     2293760     0