System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

Example—Checking Swap Activity

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


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

00:00:00 swpin/s bswin/s swpot/s bswot/s pswch/s
01:00:00    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      63
02:00:00    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      60
03:00:00    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      62
04:00:00    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      63
05:00:00    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      63
06:00:00    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      61
07:00:00    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      60
08:00:00    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      61
08:20:01    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      63
08:40:00    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      63
09:00:00    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      63
09:20:01    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0     132
09:40:01    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0     187
10:00:02    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0     185
10:20:03    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0     258
10:40:01    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0     161
11:00:01    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0     128
11:20:01    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0     117
11:40:00    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0     171
12:00:01    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      94
12:20:01    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      95
12:40:01    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      95
13:00:01    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      95
13:20:01    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      96
13:40:01    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      98
14:00:01    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      96
14:20:00    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      91
14:40:01    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      92
15:00:01    0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0     103

Average     0.00     0.0    0.00     0.0      88