Performance Monitoring

Below are the four parameter on which the performance of system is based on

1) CPU

2) Memory

3) Hard Disk

4) Network

Topas Command

Upper Section

Kernel : Percentage of CPU time spent in processing the Kernel Code,which

runs to maintain the essentail function of the system such as Timekeeping,

Process scheduling,and other important housekeeping functions.

Any process making system calls also comes in here.

User : Percentage of CPU time spent in processing User code.

Wait : This Percentage of time CPU spends waiting for I/O

Idle : Percentage of time the processor spends waiting for work, high value here shows

low utilization.

Network Section : Here we get information about the network utilization

Here we see all the top utilized network cards,

KBPS : Total throughput (in and out) for the interface

I-Pack : Inbout Packets per second

O-Pack : Outbound packets per second

KB-In : Amount of data received on this interface per second

KB-Out : Amount of data sent through this interface per second

For more information about a particular netcard card use netstat -l en0

Disk I/O Section

Disk : The top disk in terms of utilization

Busy% : Percent utilization for the disk

KBPS : Total of KB-Read and KB-Write.

KB-Read : KB of data read from

KB-Writ : KB of data written to

Processes Section

Name : Name of the process

PID : Process ID of the process

To get additional information about PID use ps v <process id> or ps -lp <process id>

CPU % : Percentage of CPU capacity used by the process

PgSp : Amount of Paging space reserved by this application use svmon -P <PID> for more

information

Owner : owner of the process

The ps command writes the current status of active processes

UID : Userid the user who owns the process

PID : The Process ID

PPID : The Parent Process ID

STIME : The Starting time of the process

%CPU : The Percentage of the time the process has used used the CPU

since the process was started

%MEM : The percentage of the real memory used by the process

Exit Status

Succesfull Completion echoes 0

Error occurence echoes >0

To display all processes, enter:

ps -e -f

To check all the processes owned by specific users, enter:

ps -f -l -uoracle,raj

To list processes that are associated with the /dev/console and /dev/tty1 ttys, enter:

ps -t tty/1 , ps -t pts/4 etc

To list processes not associated with a terminal, enter:

ps -t -