Buffer Activity

Description

The Buffer Activity metric provides information about OS memory buffer usage. This metric reports buffer activity for transfers, accesses, and cache (kernel block buffer cache) hit ratios per second.

The data sources for this metric category include the following:

Host Data Source

Solaris sar command

HP sar command

Linux not available

HP Tru64 table() system call

IBM AIX sar command

Windows not available

Host	Data Source
Solaris	sar command
HP	sar command
Linux	not available
HP Tru64	table() system call
IBM AIX	sar command
Windows	not available