sar tool

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Dec 16 13:01:10 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 20:18 -0800, Al Sparks wrote:
> Somewhat helpful, but the output I want is
>    sar -b
> and I get all zeros when invoking that.
>    === Al
> 
man sar

       -b     Report I/O and transfer rate statistics. This option works
only with  kernels  older  than  2.5.   The following values are
displayed:

Obviously you cannot use that option with a 2.6 kernel.



> --- Thomas Springer <th.springer at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> > Am Donnerstag, den 15.12.2005, 16:32 -0800 schrieb Al Sparks:
> > > I'm running RHES 4.  I installed sysstat 5.0.5-1 using up2date. 
> > > However, when I run sar, it's showing all zeros regarding disk
> > > activity.  Other gnome tools do show disk activity.
> > > 
> > > Is there a problem out there with that tool not working with the 2.6
> > > kernel?
> > >    === Al
> > > 
> > 
> > Read about sar
> > http://www.redhat.com/magazine/011sep05/features/tools/#sar
> > 
> > 
> > Thomas
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