SOS/SOLARIS Wait States

Overview

SOLARIS wait states information is displayed in the following SOS screens:

In the PROCESS STATISTICS portion of the Global Summary screen.

In the extended process line of the Global Summary screen.

In the WAIT STATES portion of the Process Detail screen.

In the WAIT STATES portion of the Workload Detail screen.

Wait State Descriptions

Each of the wait states monitored by SOS is described in the next table.

Table 2.1 Wait states

Wait State	Description
CPU	The percentage of a process’ time that it was in the CPU state, executing on the CPU.
JOB	The percentage of a process’ time that it was in the JOB state, waiting for job control or tracing signals.
OTHR	The percentage of a process’ time that it was in the OTHR state, waiting on all other resources and events.
PRI	The percentage of a process’ time that it was in the PRI state, waiting for the CPU.
TFLT	The percentage of a process’ time that it was in the TFLT state, waiting on text page faults.
DFLT	The percentage of a process’ time that it was in the DFLT state, waiting on data page faults.
KFLT	The percentage of a process’ time that it was in the KFLT state, waiting on kernel page faults.
ULCK	The percentage of a process’ time that it was in the ULCK state, waiting on user locks.