When monitoring the performance of a UNIX system using LoadRunner you need to enable
rstatd on the server being tested.
Once you've enable rstatd,(
rstatd
RPC.RSTATD(8)
BSD System Manager’s Manual RPC.RSTATD(8)
NAME
rstatd
, rpc.rstatd
- kernel statistics server
SYNOPSIS
rpc.rstatd
DESCRIPTION
rpc.rstatd
is a server which returns performance statistics obtained from
the kernel. These statistics are usually read using the rup(1)
command.
They are also used by the rpc.lockd(8)
server during crash recovery. The
rpc.rstatd
daemon is normally invoked by inetd(8)
.
rpc.rstatd
uses an RPC protocol defined in /usr/include/rpcsvc/rstat.x
.
SEE ALSO
rup(1)
, inetd(8)
, rpc.lockd(8)
)
iN LoadRunner Controller you se a number of counters which LoadRunner
can monitor.
I've tried to define the UNIX counters and where applicable I've described the Windows and UNIX counters.
UNIX counter | Windows Counter | Description |
Average Load* | N/A | The sum of the number of processes waiting in the run queue plus the number currently executing. |
Collision rate | N/A | The total number of network collisions/sec |
Context switch rate | System - Context Switches/sec | The rate at which processors switch from executing one thread toanother. High switch rates can indicate performance problems as serversjuggle multiple running applications. |
CPU utilisation | %Processor Time | The percentage of elapsed time that the process spends executing non-idle threads. |
Disk traffic | %Disk time | The percentage of elapsed time that the disk(s) are busy servicing read or write requests. |
Incoming packets error rate | Packets received errors | The number of packets received containing errors that precvent them from being delivered to a higher OSI layer protocol. |
Incoming packets rate | Packets received/sec | The number of packets received on the network interface |
Interrupt rate | Interrupts/sec | Average rate at which the processor receives and services hardwareinterrupts. Processes generate an interrupt when they finish a task andneed to report that fact to the CPU. |
Outgoing packets error rate | Packets outbound errors | The number of packets that can't be transmitted due to errors |
Outgoing packets rate | Packets sent / sec | The rate at which packets are sent on the network interface |
Page-in rate | Pages Input/sec | The rate at which pages are read from disk to resolve hard pagefaults. Hard page faults occur when a process refers to a page invirtual memory which is not in it's working set or available elsewherein physical memory and has to be read from disk. |
Page-out rate | Pages Output/sec | The rate at which memory pages are written to disk to free up space in physical memory. |
Paging rate | Paging rate | The rate at which pages are read from disk or written to disk. This is the sum of Pages Input/sec and Pages Output/sec. |
Swap-in rate | N/A | The number of pages read into memory per second |
Swap-out rate | N/A | The number of pages written out of memory per second |
System mode CPU utilization | Processor - %Priviledged time | The percentage of elapsed time that the processor spends executing user threads (i.e. running applications) |
User mode CPU utilization | Processor - %User time | The percentage or elapsed time that the processor spends executing priviledged or system mode threads. |