System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

Example—Checking Buffer Activity

The following example of sar -b output shows that the %rcache and %wcache buffers are not causing any slowdowns. All the data is within acceptable limits.


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

00:00:00 bread/s lread/s %rcache bwrit/s lwrit/s %wcache pread/s pwrit/s
01:00:00       0       0     100       0       0      50       0       0
02:00:00       0       0     100       0       0      45       0       0
03:00:00       0       0     100       0       0      72       0       0
04:00:00       0       0     100       0       0      43       0       0
05:00:00       0       0     100       0       0      42       0       0
06:00:00       0       0     100       0       0      48       0       0
07:00:00       0       0     100       0       0      42       0       0
08:00:00       0       0     100       0       0      48       0       0
08:20:01       0       0     100       0       0      42       0       0
08:40:00       0       0     100       0       0      48       0       0
09:00:00       0       0     100       0       0      43       0       0
09:20:01       0       2      99       0       2      83       0       0
09:40:01       0       0      98       0       0      61       0       0
10:00:02       0       1      99       0       0      62       0       0

Average        0       0      99       0       0      74       0       0