CPU Graphs
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SarCheck will produce graphs to highlight specific problems or the lack of problems.  Here are two graphs that show the lack of a CPU bottleneck.

 

Average CPU utilization was only 0.1 percent. This indicates that spare CPU capacity exists. If any performance problems were seen during the entire monitoring period, they were not caused by a lack of CPU power.

The CPU was waiting for I/O an average of 0.1 percent of the time. This statistic does not indicate the presence of an I/O bottleneck.

Graph of CPU utilization

The CPU was idle (neither busy nor waiting for I/O) and had nothing to do an average of 99.7 percent of the time. If overall performance was good, this means that on average, the CPU was lightly loaded. If performance was generally unacceptable, the bottleneck may have been caused by remote file I/O which cannot be directly measured with sar and therefore cannot be considered by SarCheck.

The run queue had an average length of 1.1 which indicates that processes were generally not bound by latent demand for CPU resources. The following graph shows both the run queue length and occupancy. The occupancy is shown as %runocc/10, where a run queue occupied 100 percent of the time would be shown a vertical line reaching a height of 10.0.

Graph of run queue length