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 might be required to obtain acceptable system response.
$ sar -q SunOS touchstone 5.9 Generic sun4u 03/04/2003 00:00:00 runq-sz %runocc swpq-sz %swpocc 01:00:00 0.0 0 0.0 0 02:00:00 0.0 0 0.0 0 03:00:00 0.0 0 0.0 0 04:00:00 1.0 0 0.0 0 05:00:00 0.0 0 0.0 0 06:00:00 0.0 0 0.0 0 07:00:00 1.0 0 0.0 0 08:00:00 0.0 0 0.0 0 08:20:01 0.0 0 0.0 0 08:40:00 0.0 0 0.0 0 09:00:00 1.0 0 0.0 0 09:20:01 1.6 3 0.0 0 09:40:01 1.5 8 0.0 0 10:00:02 1.6 7 0.0 0 10:20:03 1.5 2 0.0 0 10:40:01 1.9 1 0.0 0 11:00:01 1.4 0 0.0 0 11:20:01 1.6 0 0.0 0 Average 1.6 1 0.0 0 |