Cherian, If you want to see more detailed output, try "prstat -m", it provides user and sys consumption, along with more detailed info.
Andrew On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 14:04 -0700, Cherian Abraham wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to understand the prstat output, but had quite a few doubts on > the output shown. > > Does the prstat CPU usage display by default for each process reflect the > user cpu time or a total of user and system cpu time ? > PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP > 25141 root 6584K 5872K run 0 0 0:00:00 0.6% processA/1 > 25102 root 6496K 5776K sleep 40 0 0:00:00 0.6% processB/1 > 993 root 11M 9992K sleep 54 0 2:58:27 0.6% processC/5 > 24415 root 6576K 5776K sleep 52 0 0:00:00 0.4% processD/1 > > Top has an additional 4 lines that shows total CPU and memory usages. Since > prstat does not show the output, i was thinking of using CPU usage shown by > iostat. For some reason, iostat cpu usage shown seems to match closer to top, > but vmstat and mpstat does not. Does anyone know why this difference and > which would be the best tool to use to get the total CPU usages (as user, > system, io wait and idle) ? > > Would appreciate some guidance... > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > perf-discuss mailing list > perf-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
