Chapter 5. Workload Measurements
If you want to manage a resource, you must measure its usage.
The generic types of measurements that you can obtain directly or indirectly via related measurements are throughput, utilization, queue length and response time. These measurements are made at several levels, including business operations, application, user, system, network, process, and device level.
This chapter discusses measurement sources and the meaning of the available measurements that are important for resource management.
One problem in documenting the details of Solaris measurements is that far more measurements are available than can be displayed by the standard tools such as vmstat, sar, and ps. Most commercial performance tools read the ...
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