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

1. USR – user mode
2. SYS - kernel mode
3. TRP – trap handling
4. TFL – text page faults
5. DFL – data page faults
6. LCK – user lock wait
7. SLP - sleep
8. LAT – waiting for a processor (sitting on a run queue)