The vmstat first line shows the system average stats for systems since the last time the system was booted. Vmstat shows the average use over the 5 second interval in you example below of vmstat 5 5. Sar shows the stats at the time the check was taken. So you are not comparing apples to apples. So they are going to give you different results.

Ken L.

-----Original Message----- From: James Wade [mailto:jkwade at futurefrontiers.com] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 2:34 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Solaris vmstat and sar

Tried that, It didn't work. You still get some lines that have incorrect data, like 67% idle. The sar data showed cpu idle at 1% or 0% all 5 lines.

James

-----Original Message----- From: Lund, Holly [mailto:holly.lund at hq.doe.gov] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 1:12 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Solaris vmstat and sar

vmstat first output is invalid. doing vmstat 5 5 the other 4 should change to reflect sar

Holly Lund

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