Summary
Monitoring system performance is one of the important tasks performed by administrators. Administrators require performance reports detailing statistics on CPU usage, virtual memory, disk utilization, and network activity. To report performance statistics for each of these issues, Solaris provides a number of command line utilities.
You can use the mpstat and prstat commands to monitor CPU utilization. The mpstat command displays performance reports on processor activity. The prstat command reports information on the active processes running on the system. In Solaris, you can use the vmstat, swap, and pmap commands to monitor virtual memory. The vmstat command generates reports on the status of virtual memory. The swap command monitors ...
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