sar, sa1, sa2, sadc — System Activity Report Package

Synopsis

/usr/lib/sa/sadc [t n][ofile]
/usr/lib/sa/sa1 [t n]
/usr/lib/sa/sa2 [-aAbcdgkmpqruvwy][-e time][-f filename][-i sec]
  [-s time]

Description

You can access system activity data by special request (see sar(1)) and automatically, on a routine basis, as described here. The operating system contains several counters that are incremented as various system actions occur. These include counters for the following activities.

  • CPU use.

  • Buffer use.

  • Disk and tape I/O transfers.

  • TTY device activity.

  • Switching and system-call activity.

  • File access.

  • Queue manipulation.

  • Interprocess communications.

  • Paging.

For more general system statistics, use iostat(1M), sar(1), or vmstat(1M).

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