Solaris Monitoring

pargs
pflags
pcred
pldd
psig
pstack
pmap
pfiles

pwdx
pstop
prun

pwait
ptree
ptime
preap
pkill

trapstat

mpstat
vmstat
netstat
sar

cputrack cpustat

Microstates

● Fine-grained state tracking for processes/threads ● Off by default in Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 ● On by default in Solaris 10 ● Can be enabled per-process via /proc ● prstat -m reports microstates ● As a percentage of time for the sampling period ● USR – user mode ● SYS - kernel mode ● TRP – trap handling ● TFL – text page faults ● DFL – data page faults ● LCK – user lock wait ● SLP - sleep ● LAT – waiting for a processor (sitting on a run queue)