eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by SybTasksTest

This test reports statistics pertaining to the tasks performed by the Sybase database engines. The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Connection_open_rate The rate at which connections are opened Conns/sec This provides a general understanding of the Adaptive Server environment and the work load during the measure interval.
Task_switch_rate The rate at which the Adaptive Server switched context from one user task to another Switches/Sec The detailed diagnosis of this measure, if enabled, reports the percentage of times the context switch was due to each of the following specific causes .
  • Voluntary Yields
  • Cache Search Misses
  • System Disk Writes
  • I/O Paging
  • Logical Lock Contention
  • Address Lock Contention
  • Latch Contention
  • Log Semaphore Contention
  • PLC Lock Contention
  • Group Commit Sleeps
  • Last Log Page Writes
  • Modify Conflicts
  • I/O Device Contention
  • Network Packet Received
  • Network Packet Sent
  • Other Causes