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sar, iostat and mpstat - system performance tools for Linux
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sar, iostat and mpstat - system performance tools for Linux
The sysstat package contains the following system performance tools:  
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The sysstat package contains the following system performance tools:  
* sar - collects and reports system activity information;  
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* sar - collects and reports system activity information;  
* iostat - reports CPU utilization and I/O statistics for disks;  
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* iostat - reports CPU utilization and I/O statistics for disks;  
* mpstat - reports global and per-processor statistics;  
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* mpstat - reports global and per-processor statistics;  
* pidstat - reports statistics for Linux tasks (processes);  
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* pidstat - reports statistics for Linux tasks (processes);  
* sadf - displays data collected by sar in various formats.  
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* sadf - displays data collected by sar in various formats.  
 
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The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity,
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The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity,
process-related activities, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space
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process-related activities, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space
utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities and TTY statistics, among
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utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities and TTY statistics, among
others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported.
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others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported.
  
 
Homepage: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/
 
Homepage: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/

Revision as of 18:49, 30 April 2009

Description

sar, iostat and mpstat - system performance tools for Linux The sysstat package contains the following system performance tools:

  • sar - collects and reports system activity information;
  • iostat - reports CPU utilization and I/O statistics for disks;
  • mpstat - reports global and per-processor statistics;
  • pidstat - reports statistics for Linux tasks (processes);
  • sadf - displays data collected by sar in various formats.

The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related activities, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities and TTY statistics, among others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported.

Homepage: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/

Installation

This contrib can be found in the base repository. To install this contrib get shell access as root user and issue the following command:

yum install iperf --enablerepo=base