The sar command, native to Solaris and often installed on Linux systems via the sysstat package, is extremely useful in analyzing current and recent system performance. On the other hand, if you would ...

If the sysstat package isn’t installed on your Linux system (which it generally isn’t by default), you can easily grab a copy with your favorite Linux installer — typically one of the following ...

Monitoring system performance with sar is as easy as enabling the sar tasks. While sar is bundled into many versions of Unix, it’s often disabled until you take steps to get it running. To find out ...

As someone who's been working as a system administrator for a number of years, it's easy to take tools for granted that I've used for a long time and assume everyone has heard of them. Of course, new ...

ITworld.com – The sar utility, if turned on and configured to run under the default settings, provides quite a bit of performance data at virtually no cost. The sar commands that run via cron are run ...