HP-UX Stress Testing - The Workshop On Performance and Reliability

MeasureWare Data Walkthrough:Global Queue Graph• GBL_SLEEP_QUEUE• The average number of processes or threads blocked onSLEEP (waiting to awaken from sleep systemcalls) during the interval. A process or thread enters theSLEEP state by putting itself to sleep using system callssuch as sleep, wait, pause, sigpause, sigsuspend, polland select.• This is calculated as the accumulated time that allprocesses or threads spent blocked on SLEEP divided bythe interval time.• The Global QUEUE metrics, which are based on blockstates, represent the average number of process orthread counts, not actual queues.March 2004 Copyright © 2004 HP corporate presentation. All rights reserved. 69