Sar Not Running

UNIX Solaris
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Dear All,
I have SUNW,Ultra-4 Machine,running Solaris 8 while I tray sar command reported as:

[Kentut-Bau ] $ sar

SunOS Kentut-Bau 5.8 Generic_117350-34 sun4u 01/27/09

00:00:00 %usr %sys %wio %idle
00:00:00 46 54 0 0
00:01:00 3 3 3 91
00:01:01 50 50 0 0
00:02:00 1 1 2 96
00:17:44 135 334 334 302
07:00:00 unix restarts
08:42:10 unix restarts
14:47:57 10 0 90 0
sar: insufficient address space to hold 86949342 device records

Error 0

Do you have any explanation,thx for your support.

regards

Fredginting

2

sar is unable to read simple sa file. Error messages shown as:

 sar: insufficient address space to hold XXXXX device records

Work Around

Convert the sar data files to text on their machine before
reading them. Use 'sar -A -f <raw file> > <text file>'

The reason is the binary file format sar uses, it takes a lot of space.