The following table includes all allowed keywords for the BARS utility:
|
Keyword |
Description |
|---|---|
|
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.

