[hobbit] Solaris vmstat and sar

Langford, Kenneth crlangfo at ugs.com
Mon Dec 3 21:12:45 CET 2007


The vmstat first line shows the system average stats for systems since
the last time the system was booted.  Vmstat shows the average use over
the 5 second interval in you example below of vmstat 5 5.  Sar shows the
stats at the time the check was taken.  So you are not comparing apples
to apples.  So they are going to give you different results.

Ken L. 


-----Original Message-----
From: James Wade [mailto:jkwade at futurefrontiers.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 2:34 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Solaris vmstat and sar

Tried that, It didn't work. You still get some lines that
have incorrect data, like 67% idle. The sar data showed cpu
idle at 1% or 0% all 5 lines.

James

-----Original Message-----
From: Lund, Holly [mailto:holly.lund at hq.doe.gov] 
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 1:12 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Solaris vmstat and sar

vmstat first output is invalid.  doing vmstat 5 5 the other 4 should
change to reflect sar


Holly Lund





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