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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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cpustat Monitor System Behavior by Using CPU Performance Counters

Synopsis

cpustat -c eventspec [-c eventspec]... [-ntD][interval [count]]
cpustat -h

Description

The cpustat command is new in the Solaris 8 release. Use it to monitor the overall behavior of the CPUs in the system by using the CPU performance counters.

If you specify interval, cpustat samples activity every interval seconds, repeating forever. If you specify count, the statistics are repeated count times. If you specify neither operand, an interval of five seconds is used, and there is no limit to the number of samples that are taken.

Options

-c eventspec Specify a set of events ...
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