Q. I am using Solaris UNIX. How do I find out CPU Utilization under Sun Solaris UNIX?
A. Under Sun Solaris UNIX (and other UNIX oses like HP-UX and *BSD oses) you can use following commands to gather CPU information:
=> sar : System activity reporter
=> mpstat : Report per-processor or per-processor-set statistics
=> ps / top commands
Note: Linux specific CPU utilization information is here. Following information applies to UNIX only.
UNIX sar command examples
General syntax is as follows:
sar t [n]
In the first instance, sar samples cumulative activity counters in the operating system at n intervals of t seconds, where t should be 5 or greater. If t is specified with more than one option, all headers are printed together and the output may be difficult to read.
Task: Display today's CPU activity, use
# sar
Task:Watching system activity evolve i.e. reports CPU Utilization
# sar -u 12 5
Where,
- -u 12 5: Comparison of CPU utilization; 12 seconds apart; 5 times.
Output includes:
- %usr: User time (% of CPU)
- %sys: System time (% of CPU)
- %wio: Percent of CPU running idle with a process waiting for block I/O
- %idle: Percent of CPU that is idle
Task: You can watch CPU activity evolve for 10 minutes and save data
# sar -o file-name 60 10
Task: You can just sar and logout and let the report store in files
# nohup sar -A -o output-file 60 10 1>/dev/null 2>&1 &
Note to display data stored in output-file pass -f option to sar command:
# sar -f output-file
UNIX mpstat example
Type the following command to display per-processor statistics; 12 seconds apart; 5 times
# mpstat 12 5
You can also use traditional ps and top command:
# top
# ps -e -o pcpu -o pid -o user -o args
Read man pages of ps, top, mpstat and sar for more information.
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i want to learn linux this is very useful and powerful compare to Windows.
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I have Unix system with 32 CPU and 32 GB memory. My application is installed on Websphere. Looks like only 1 processor is allocated to my application out of 32 cpu. Is it possible to allocate multiple processors for my application. The system always shows 90% CPU idle time and more than 20 G free memory. How can I utilise this memory and cpu time to get better performance.
Lokesh,
Unless your application is already parallelized, there is no way to force it to use more than one CPU. Do you know if your application is Serial or in Parallel?
what is the commandin UNIX SOLARIS to list out 5 TOP processors which is consuming more CUP
the command is ‘top’.
How to check the average of last 12 hrs CPU usage
i have 42 cpus and 256 gb ram… i want to run my job autometically when my cpus usage is below cetain limit