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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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mpstat — Report Per-Processor Statistics

Synopsis

/usr/bin/mpstat[-p | -P set][interval [count]]

Description

Use the mpstat command to report per-processor statistics in tabular form. Each row of the table represents the activity of one processor. The first table summarizes all activity since boot; each subsequent table summarizes activity for the preceding interval. All values are rates (events per second) unless otherwise noted.

During execution of this kernel status command, the state of the kernel can change. An example would be CPUs going online or offline. mpstat reports this change as <<State change>>.

mpstat reports the following information.

CPU Processor ID.
minf Minor faults.
mjf Major faults.
xcal Interprocessor cross-calls.
intr ...
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