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Process monitoring using prstat

Updated 2 Nov 2015 Read time 4 min(s) 35 sec(s) (838 visits).

The prstat statistics utility shows a top-level summary of the processes that are using system resources currently.

Updated 29 Jun 2011 Read time 4 min(s) 40 sec(s) (2293 visits).

These commands can be run against a specific process, but most of them can also be run against all processes on the system.

Updated 3 Aug 2007 Read time 3 min(s) 10 sec(s) (2874 visits).

The pgrep command lets you specify the criteria and then displays the information only about the processes that match the criteria.

Updated 3 Aug 2007 Read time 2 min(s) 44 sec(s) (2522 visits).

The prstat command displays information about processes similar to ps and pgrep commands but refreshes (updates) the output in a periodic fashion

Updated 13 Sep 2011 Read time 2 min(s) 46 sec(s) (2650 visits).

With Solaris 9 and later, comes an extremly nice mdb command for checking how much memory is used in kernel, and how much is used in user space.