System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

Example—Checking CPU Utilization

The following example shows output from the sar -u command.


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

00:00:00    %usr    %sys    %wio   %idle
01:00:00       0       0       0     100
02:00:00       0       0       0     100
03:00:00       0       0       0     100
04:00:00       0       0       0     100
05:00:00       0       0       0     100
06:00:00       0       0       0     100
07:00:00       0       0       0     100
08:00:00       0       0       0     100
08:20:01       0       0       0     100
08:40:00       0       0       0     100
09:00:00       0       0       0     100
09:20:01       6       1       1      91
09:40:01      15       2       0      82
10:00:02      13       1       2      83
10:20:03       5       2       8      84
10:40:01       3       1       0      96
11:00:01       1       0       1      97
11:20:01       2       0       0      97

Average        2       0       0      98