Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

lockstat — Report Kernel Lock Statistics

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/lockstat [-ACEH][-e event-list][-b | -t | -h | -s depth]
  [-n nlocks][-l lock [, size]][-d duration][-T][-cwWRp][-D count]
  [-o filename] command [args]

Description

Use the lockstat command to gather and display statistics on kernel synchronization objects. lockstat enables you to specify which lock events to watch (for example, spin on adaptive mutex, block on read access to rwlock because of waiting writers, and so forth), how much data to gather for each event, and how to display that data. By default, lockstat monitors all lock contention events, gathers frequency and timing data about those events, and displays that data in order of decreasing frequency so that the most heavily ...