Commands for checking various utilization on Solaris. Notes to self, based on this, this, and this. The sar command depends on regular collection of data by sa1 and sa2 commands. See bottom of post for how to set that up.
- top (various)
- vmstat (various)
- mpstat (per CPU)
- sar (see below)
Sar switches
-a File access
-d Disk activity
-b Buffer activity
-c System call statistics
-g Page-out and memory
-r Unused memory
-k Kernel memory allocation
-m Interprocess communication
-p Page-in activity
-q Queue activity
-v System table activity
-w Swapping activity
-y Terminal activity
-A Overall system performance
For what output means, see this page.
Real-time gathering
You can add interval and count to the vmstat, sar and mpstat commands to collect statistics real-time. For example
$ sar -u 10 60
# Collect CPU usage in 10 second intervals indefinitely
$ sar -u 10
Setup of sar
Some sar commands depends on sa1 and sa2 collecting data regularly. If not setup, you’ll get the following error when running various sar commands (XX=todays date).
sar: can't open /var/adm/sa/saXX
To set it up you need to edit the crontab of the sys user.
♯ su sys
♯ EDITOR=vi
♯ export EDITOR
♯ crontab -e
The sys crontab should already contain samples which you could just uncomment.
0 * * * 0-6 /usr/lib/sa/sa1
# System performance snapshot every 20 minutes, Monday through Friday between 8 and 17
20,40 8-17 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa1
# ASCII report at 6:05, Monday through Friday
5 18 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -s 8:00 -e 18:01 -i 1200 -A
Following is a more straight forward version.
0,15,30,45 * * * 0-6 /usr/lib/sa/sa1
# ASCII report every day at 23:55
55 23 * * 0-6 /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A
After editing, save the file and data should start being collected.