sysstat output (using sar)
 

Hi..can somebody help me on how to analyze the output of sysstat with regards to process list(plist-sz). My question is where that sar command get the number of process list is it in the ps -ef command or in the number of tcp connection. You quick responce is a great help to us. See below for your reference. Thanks.

plist-sz
Number of processes in the process list.



Time runq-sz plist-sz ldavg-1 ldavg-5 ldavg-15
12:10:00 AM 5 500 0.02 0.08 0.08
12:20:00 AM 4 516 0.02 0.07 0.08
12:30:00 AM 7 532 0.12 0.15 0.1
12:40:00 AM 5 571 0.08 0.15 0.1
12:50:00 AM 4 565 0.17 0.17 0.12
1:00:00 AM 6 535 0.01 0.07 0.08
1:10:00 AM 4 490 0.5 0.17 0.11
1:20:00 AM 6 470 0.01 0.05 0.07
1:30:00 AM 7 469 0.06 0.05 0.05
1:40:00 AM 6 523 0.06 0.03 0.02
1:50:00 AM 5 630 0.07 0.18 0.1
2:00:00 AM 8 564 0.06 0.12 0.09
2:10:00 AM 0 578 0.36 0.34 0.27
2:20:00 AM 4 544 0.08 0.1 0.17
2:30:00 AM 7 545 0.3 0.15 0.13
2:40:00 AM 6 529 0.2 0.14 0.1
2:50:00 AM 2 519 0.13 0.23 0.2
3:00:00 AM 9 471 0.07 0.06 0.11
3:10:00 AM 5 432 0.07 0.04 0.07
3:20:00 AM 6 438 0.07 0.03 0.03

My question is where that sar command get the number of process list is it in the ps -ef command or in the number of tcp connection.
You're looking at runqueue and process statistics, not network statistics.

I would say it is the number of processes ( ps -e ) and may be threads also.
I don't know if my answer is still usefull but I was myself asking me the question.