What problem are you trying to solve?
Use "prstat -Lm", or "prstat -Lmp <PID>",
at 1 second intervals for a fixed duration,
and do the math. The various columns produced
by "pstat -m" (USR SYS SLP, etc) represent the
percentage of time the sampled thread spent in each
microstate for the last sampling period (except the
last 4 columns, which are counts).
Chad Myhier improved ptime to include reporting
of time spent in various microstates. I can send you
a binary - are you on x86 or SPARC?
You should also explore extended accounting.
HTH,
/jim
tester wrote:
Hi,
Need some dtrace pointers to track time spent by some programs. N processes
with N threads each running on a multiprocessor system. What probes to use to
decompose total run time to on-proc, sleep, io etc?
Since it's a muliprocessor system, I am guessing that the toal units of time will be in
the terms of " clock ticks" and so will be the break up.
So for example on a 2X2Ghz system a program running for 10 sec has,
theoretically 10*2*2*1024*1024 clock ticks potentially available. How to track how much of this the program is using (with a breakup of on-cpu and io wait etc)
Or am I completely off on this with a different approach?
Also what will the additional impact of tracking such usage with Dtrace.
Thanks
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