From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 22 16:27: 2 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 16:27:00 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1BB237B400 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:26:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 588FB6AB6E; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 10:56:57 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 10:56:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Dan Nelson Cc: Lauri Laupmaa , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sar for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20001223105657.A64696@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3A4302A7.7A31846C@inspiral.net> <20001222111954.B13745@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001222111954.B13745@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:19:54AM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 22 December 2000 at 11:19:54 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Dec 22), Lauri Laupmaa said: >> Under SCO and Solaris there is a program named sar (system activity >> reporter) Is it (or some such program) ported to freebsd ? > > SCO released the source to their sar program to a company called > Starnix in June '99. Nothing has happened since then, and the source > is apparently still not freely available. I investigated this code last year. There would have been no problem in getting the code. The real issue is that it would have required a large amount of kernel code changes, and we weren't really sure that it would give us so much more than sa as to make it worthwhile. Take a look at sa(8) and see if you disagree. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message