> This makes sense, however, I am still a bit confused. You are stating
> that in Solaris 9 microstate accounting gets only updated when the lwp
> is transitions from one state to another.
No, microstate data only gets updated when the lwp transitions from one
state to another. This hasn't change
The counts should add up to 100 - according to page 38 at
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/solaris_performanceandtools_ch3_processes.pdf
[i]3.2.2 Process Microstates: prstat -m
The process microstates can be very useful to help identify why a process or
thread
is performing suboptimally
This makes sense, however, I am still a bit confused. You are stating that in
Solaris 9 microstate accounting gets only updated when the lwp is transitions
from one state to another. So, if the process was idle for a long time (idle
since before microstate accounting was started by prstat -m ??)
