Not specifically network saturation - but something a little more specific...

Take a look at http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/inet/tcp/tcp_input.c

around line 1362.

   1362         if (listener->tcp_conn_req_cnt_q >= listener->tcp_conn_req_max) 
{
   1363                 mutex_exit(&listener->tcp_eager_lock);
   1364                 TCP_STAT(tcps, tcp_listendrop);


Seems like each time this is true:
  listener->tcp_conn_req_cnt_q >= listener->tcp_conn_req_max

we will increment the counter.

I'm expecting this is more about the rate of connection requests to the system rather than non-specific network saturation (which could manifest in a variety of ways.).

This blog seems to have some good detail on it:
http://blogs.sun.com/terrygardner/entry/solaris_tcp_ip_parameters_tcp

As does the Solaris tunables guide...

http://docsun.cites.uiuc.edu/sun_docs/C/solaris_9/SUNWaadm/SOLTUNEPARAMREF/p34.html

and ndd -get /dev/tcp can show you the current values.

What problem are you trying to solve? Are you simply trying to understand the metric, or is there an underlying issue you are experiencing that's caused you to pick out this metric?

Cheers!

Nathan.

Tony MacDoodle wrote:
Hello,

Would network saturation cause the following:

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Date Time %CPU %Mem %Disk %Net CPU Mem Disk Net Tue Apr 27 17:22:11 2010 38.45 18.28 0.00 191.12 1.18 0.00 0.00 0.00 Tue Apr 27 17:22:16 2010 2.72 18.29 0.00 19.13 0.20 0.00 0.00 0.00 Tue Apr 27 17:22:21 2010 21.98 18.50 0.00 98.57 0.39 0.00 0.00 0.00
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