The following table includes all allowed keywords for the BARS utility:
Keyword |
Description |
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LASTCYCLE |
Number of seconds since last display |
AVGCYCLE |
Average number of seconds between displays |
IDLE |
Percentage of available processor time spent idling |
MCP |
Percentage of available processor time spent on nonvisible user or operating system processes |
USER |
Percentage of available processor time spent on visible user or operating system processes |
OVHD |
Percentage of available processor time spent stack switching or stack searching, and IOfinish time |
PBIT |
Percentage of total available processor time spent performing presence bit operations |
INIT |
Percentage of total available processor time spent doing initial presence bit operations |
FREE |
Percentage of total available processor time spent performing presence bit operations after resumption |
SAVE |
Save memory |
OLAY |
Overlayable memory |
AVAIL |
Available memory |
OVRFL |
Overlay-file words for overlayable memory |
CCACT |
Number of core-to-core moves |
COACT |
Number of overlays |
OCACT |
Number of overlay-file presence bit operations |
PCACT |
Number of code file presence bit operations |
CLACT |
Number of core-to-limbo overlays |
CCWRD |
Number of words moved core-to-core |
COWRD |
Number of words overlayed |
OCWRD |
Number of words read from overlay files |
PCWRD |
Number of words read from code files |
CLWRD |
Number of read-only words overlayed |
TRFC |
Percentage of time when overlay I/O in process |
MIX |
Number of tasks in mix |
STED |
Number of tasks suspended by the system |
READY |
Number of tasks waiting for processors |
SCHED |
Number of scheduled tasks |
In addition, a keyword is shown for each online labeled pack, which allows the number of I/O operations waiting for that unit to be displayed.
For a system that has a reduced capacity processor, the available processor time used in calculating processor percentage utilization does not include reduce capacity processor time.