eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by SybNetworkTest

The SybNetworkTest, executed by an internal agent, tracks various statistics pertaining to network traffic of the Sybase Adaptive Server. The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
IO_requests The total number of packets received and sent per second Pkts/Sec  
IO_delay The percentage of times network I/O was delayed Percent A non-zero value over a period of time indicates a problem.
Data_recvd_rate Reports the rate at which the network bytes are being received. KBytes/Sec This measure indicates the amount of data coming to the database server through the network. A high value of this measure indicates higher rate of incoming data to the server. If this measure is considerably high, the value of the default network packet size parameter should be increased.
Data_sent_rate Reports the rate at which the network bytes are being sent. KBytes/Sec This measure indicates the amount of data going out of the database server through the network. A high value of this measure indicates higher rate of outgoing data from the server. If this measure is considerably high, the value of the default network packet size parameter should be increased.
Avg_packet_size The average number of bytes sent per packet Bytes If the Adaptive server receives a command that is larger than the packet size, the server waits to begin processing until it receives the full command. Therefore, commands that require more than one packet are slower to execute and take up more I/O resources. If the average bytes per packet is near the default packet size configured for your server, you may want to configure larger packet sizes for some connections. You can configure the network packet size for all connections or allow certain connections to log in using larger packet sizes.