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SCO Open Sources System Activity Reporter

Posted by Hemos on from the beginning-to-learn dept.

diabloii writes "SCO will license its System Activity Reporter (SAR) source code to the open source community in cooperation with Starnix, Inc. SAR is currently used to retrieve data for administering the UnixWare 7 System V Release 5 (SVR5) kernel. SCO is hoping that the release of SAR will help standardize kernel administrative. Read the press release here. Also more info at freshmeat. " SAR will be released under the Mozilla license, under the 2nd phase of the release. In the first phase, it will be ported to *BSD and Linux, with the help of Starnix.

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  1. Re:What to use this for? by Ob+the+Rat · · Score: 2
    I used sar in my previous job. It does cpu/io/memory usage reporting. For full information on what it can do, (Including a lot of formating options) check out the following URL:


    http://www5.sco.com/cgi-bin/ssl_getmanpage?sar+A DM+OS5+sar

  2. Cautious Optimism by Fish+Man · · Score: 3

    Hmmm...

    I reserve a cautious optimism about this development.

    On the one hand, I'll take any contributions to the pool of open source software we can get, provided it's worth something. I'm not aware of any really decent open source performance monitoring packages previously available so this package may prove interesting.

    OTOH, SCO is not famous for being particularly friendly to Open Source concepts, and as others have pointed out, something like 25% of them is owned by Microsoft.

    It's interesting that this announcement is being made by a company who's CEO, Doug Michels, has been known to have done some truly venomous FUD spewing about Linux in the past. He has also claimed that the supposed venomous FUD spewing was actually a result of the press misquoting him or quoting him out of context.

    Maybe it's true that SCO has some respect for the open source concept and the press WAS misquoting Michels on these occasions. It wouldn't be the first time that the press tried to artificially give the impression of a conflict.

    This development may or may not be evidence of SCO's real attitude toward open source. Time will tell, and this is a development worth watching.

  3. Re:So what?... Try running it with a -A by yomahz · · Score: 2

    support support 3.2v5.0.2 Pentium 06/14/99

    00:00:01 %usr %sys %wio %idle
    01:00:00 0 0 0 100
    02:00:00 0 0 0 100
    03:00:01 0 0 0 100
    04:00:01 0 0 0 100
    05:00:00 0 0 0 100
    06:00:00 0 0 0 100
    07:00:00 0 0 0 100
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 0 2 2 96
    08:40:00 0 1 6 92
    09:00:01 0 0 0 99
    09:20:00 1 0 0 98
    09:40:00 2 2 4 91
    10:00:00 0 0 0 99
    10:20:00 2 1 0 97
    10:40:01 2 0 0 98
    11:00:00 1 0 0 98
    11:20:00 0 0 0 99

    Average 0 0 0 99

    00:00:01 bread/s lread/s %rcache bwrit/s lwrit/s %wcache pread/s pwrit/s
    01:00:00 0 2 98 0 0 88 0 0
    02:00:00 0 2 100 0 0 90 0 0
    03:00:01 0 2 100 0 0 90 0 0
    04:00:01 0 2 99 0 0 89 0 0
    05:00:00 0 2 100 0 0 90 0 0
    06:00:00 0 2 100 0 0 89 0 0
    07:00:00 0 2 100 0 0 86 0 0
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 10 70 85 2 8 70 0 0
    08:40:00 11 161 93 3 6 58 0 0
    09:00:01 0 8 97 0 2 70 0 0
    09:20:00 2 21 89 1 5 72 0 0
    09:40:00 32 208 84 27 71 62 0 0
    10:00:00 0 8 98 0 2 78 0 0
    10:20:00 0 30 97 1 9 84 0 0
    10:40:01 3 12 73 0 3 74 0 0
    11:00:00 0 4 99 0 1 81 0 0
    11:20:00 0 3 99 0 1 82 0 0

    Average 2 18 89 1 4 69 0 0


    00:00:01 device %busy avque r+w/s blks/s avwait avserv
    01:00:00 Sdsk-0 0.13 1.00 0.13 0.27 0.00 9.44

    02:00:00 Sdsk-0 0.00 1.00 0.09 0.18 0.00 0.03

    03:00:01
    04:00:01 Sdsk-0 0.01 1.00 0.11 0.23 0.00 0.55

    05:00:00
    06:00:00 Sdsk-0 0.00 1.00 0.09 0.20 0.00 0.26

    07:00:00
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 Sdsk-0 10.64 1.23 4.93 24.54 4.95 21.57

    08:40:00 Sdsk-0 6.25 1.17 10.99 26.36 0.97 5.69

    09:00:01 Sdsk-0 0.12 1.00 0.56 1.55 0.00 2.16

    09:20:00 Sdsk-0 0.52 1.04 1.88 7.08 0.12 2.75

    09:40:00 Sdsk-0 5.58 1.54 12.04 118.17 2.50 4.64

    10:00:00 Sdsk-0 0.09 1.05 0.44 1.12 0.09 2.01

    10:20:00 Sdsk-0 0.29 1.07 1.69 4.71 0.12 1.69

    10:40:01 Sdsk-0 0.44 1.09 1.62 8.09 0.24 2.73

    11:00:00 Sdsk-0 0.01 1.00 0.21 0.51 0.00 0.51

    11:20:00 Sdsk-0 0.04 1.00 0.19 0.43 0.00 1.97


    Average Sdsk-0 0.74 1.27 1.14 6.21 1.77 6.49


    00:00:01 H_hits Hmisses (%Hhit) D_hits Dmisses (%Dhit)
    01:00:00 18432 286 ( 98%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    02:00:00 18328 274 ( 98%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    03:00:01 18316 274 ( 98%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    04:00:01 20533 574 ( 97%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    05:00:00 18271 271 ( 98%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    06:00:00 18831 314 ( 98%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    07:00:00 24369 669 ( 97%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 115101 10367 ( 91%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    08:40:00 23248 12277 ( 65%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    09:00:01 22807 1241 ( 94%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    09:20:00 54671 2620 ( 95%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    09:40:00 91269 6396 ( 93%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    10:00:00 19734 1386 ( 93%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    10:20:00 70310 2626 ( 96%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    10:40:01 35183 1300 ( 96%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    11:00:00 11170 491 ( 95%) 0 0 ( 0%)
    11:20:00 10449 374 ( 96%) 0 0 ( 0%)

    Average 59102 4174 ( 93%) 0 0 ( 0%)


    00:00:01 rawch/s canch/s outch/s rcvin/s xmtin/s mdmin/s
    01:00:00 0 0 0 0 0 0
    02:00:00 0 0 0 0 0 0
    03:00:01 0 0 0 0 0 0
    04:00:01 0 0 0 0 0 0
    05:00:00 0 0 0 0 0 0
    06:00:00 0 0 0 0 0 0
    07:00:00 0 0 0 0 0 0
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 2 0 53 0 0 0
    08:40:00 3 0 56 0 0 0
    09:00:01 5 0 51 0 0 0
    09:20:00 0 0 46 0 0 0
    09:40:00 0 0 185 0 0 0
    10:00:00 2 0 27 0 0 0
    10:20:00 5 0 216 0 0 0
    10:40:01 3 0 70 0 0 0
    11:00:00 0 0 2 0 0 0
    11:20:00 0 0 7 0 0 0

    Average 0 0 23 0 0 0



    00:00:01 scall/s sread/s swrit/s fork/s exec/s rchar/s wchar/s
    01:00:00 44 4 3 0.01 0.01 789 80
    02:00:00 44 4 3 0.01 0.01 787 80
    03:00:01 44 4 3 0.01 0.01 786 80
    04:00:01 44 4 3 0.01 0.01 794 80
    05:00:00 44 4 3 0.01 0.01 788 80
    06:00:00 44 4 3 0.01 0.01 791 80
    07:00:00 45 4 3 0.02 0.02 827 80
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 143 24 7 0.42 0.49 7883 1150
    08:40:00 141 8 4 0.06 0.05 1406 174
    09:00:01 67 11 5 0.06 0.04 1567 242
    09:20:00 86 10 5 0.10 0.10 3862 441
    09:40:00 167 18 33 0.05 0.06 33814 24821
    10:00:00 60 7 4 0.04 0.07 1739 133
    10:20:00 112 21 10 0.08 0.08 5043 941
    10:40:01 87 13 6 0.04 0.05 2723 1044
    11:00:00 77 5 5 0.02 0.02 1100 2260
    11:20:00 74 6 4 0.03 0.02 1012 1035

    Average 62 7 4 0.03 0.04 2452 1094


    00:00:01 swpin/s bswin/s swpot/s bswot/s pswch/s
    01:00:00 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 9
    02:00:00 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 9
    03:00:01 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 9
    04:00:01 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 9
    05:00:00 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 9
    06:00:00 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 9
    07:00:00 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 9
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 20
    08:40:00 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 23
    09:00:01 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 15
    09:20:00 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 15
    09:40:00 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 31
    10:00:00 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 12
    10:20:00 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 21
    10:40:01 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 18
    11:00:00 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 12
    11:20:00 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 13

    Average 0.00 0.0 0.00 0.0 12


    00:00:01 iget/s namei/s dirbk/s
    01:00:00 5 1 0
    02:00:00 5 1 0
    03:00:01 5 1 0
    04:00:01 6 1 0
    05:00:00 5 1 0
    06:00:00 5 1 0
    07:00:00 7 1 0
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 116 21 41
    08:40:00 71 59 104
    09:00:01 19 3 4
    09:20:00 46 7 10
    09:40:00 112 42 65
    10:00:00 17 3 5
    10:20:00 60 8 11
    10:40:01 30 4 5
    11:00:00 9 2 2
    11:20:00 9 2 1

    Average 19 6 8


    00:00:01 runq-sz %runocc swpq-sz %swpocc
    01:00:00 1.0 0
    02:00:00 1.0 3
    03:00:01 3.0 1
    04:00:01 3.0 0
    05:00:00
    06:00:00 2.0 0
    07:00:00
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 2.9 6
    08:40:00 1.2 2
    09:00:01 1.0 1
    09:20:00 1.2 2
    09:40:00 1.1 5
    10:00:00
    10:20:00 1.3 4
    10:40:01 1.3 2
    11:00:00
    11:20:00 2.0 0

    Average 1.6 19


    00:00:01 proc-sz ov inod-sz ov file-sz ov lock-sz
    01:00:00 73/ 95 0 294/1126 0 276/ 341 0 4/ 128
    02:00:00 73/ 95 0 294/1126 0 276/ 341 0 4/ 128
    03:00:01 71/ 95 0 292/1126 0 274/ 341 0 4/ 128
    04:00:01 73/ 95 0 294/1228 0 276/ 341 0 4/ 128
    05:00:00 73/ 95 0 295/1228 0 277/ 341 0 4/ 128
    06:00:00 73/ 95 0 295/1228 0 277/ 341 0 4/ 128
    07:00:00 72/ 95 0 294/1228 0 276/ 341 0 4/ 128
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 84/ 95 0 350/ 870 0 326/ 341 0 11/ 128
    08:40:00 82/ 95 0 347/ 870 0 322/ 341 0 10/ 128
    09:00:01 82/ 95 0 345/ 870 0 321/ 341 0 11/ 128
    09:20:00 85/ 95 0 354/ 870 0 331/ 682 0 11/ 128
    09:40:00 83/ 95 0 352/1894 0 328/ 682 0 11/ 128
    10:00:00 89/ 95 0 366/1894 0 342/ 682 0 11/ 128
    10:20:00 88/ 95 0 360/1894 0 334/ 682 0 11/ 128
    10:40:01 90/ 95 0 365/1894 0 341/ 682 0 11/ 128
    11:00:00 89/ 95 0 363/1894 0 339/ 682 0 11/ 128
    11:20:00 89/ 95 0 363/1894 0 340/ 682 0 11/ 128



    00:00:01 msg/s sema/s
    01:00:00 0.00 0.01
    02:00:00 0.00 0.00
    03:00:01 0.00 0.00
    04:00:01 0.00 0.00
    05:00:00 0.00 0.00
    06:00:00 0.00 0.00
    07:00:00 0.00 0.00
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 0.00 0.04
    08:40:00 0.00 0.00
    09:00:01 0.00 0.00
    09:20:00 0.01 0.00
    09:40:00 0.00 0.00
    10:00:00 0.00 0.00
    10:20:00 0.01 0.00
    10:40:01 0.00 0.00
    11:00:00 0.00 0.00
    11:20:00 0.00 0.00

    Average 0.00 0.00



    00:00:01 vflt/s pflt/s pgfil/s rclm/s
    01:00:00 0.06 0.18 0.00 0.00
    02:00:00 0.06 0.18 0.00 0.00
    03:00:01 0.06 0.18 0.00 0.00
    04:00:01 0.08 0.27 0.00 0.00
    05:00:00 0.06 0.18 0.00 0.00
    06:00:00 0.06 0.21 0.00 0.00
    07:00:00 0.13 0.46 0.00 0.00
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 6.52 11.39 1.83 0.00
    08:40:00 0.94 1.99 0.14 0.00
    09:00:01 0.78 2.00 0.01 0.00
    09:20:00 3.99 3.43 0.36 0.00
    09:40:00 1.55 1.65 0.32 0.00
    10:00:00 1.54 1.41 0.01 0.00
    10:20:00 3.64 3.40 0.06 0.00
    10:40:01 2.83 1.90 0.73 0.00
    11:00:00 0.48 0.72 0.01 0.00
    11:20:00 0.23 0.70 0.00 0.00

    Average 0.75 1.03 0.10 0.00

    00:00:01 freemem freeswp
    01:00:00 25464 512000
    02:00:00 25473 512000
    03:00:01 25473 512000
    04:00:01 25468 512000
    05:00:00 25468 512000
    06:00:00 25467 512000
    07:00:00 25467 512000
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 25245 512000
    08:40:00 24896 512000
    09:00:01 24858 512000
    09:20:00 24807 512000
    09:40:00 24651 512000
    10:00:00 24517 512000
    10:20:00 24323 512000
    10:40:01 23832 512000
    11:00:00 23429 512000
    11:20:00 23402 512000

    Average 25123 512000

    00:00:01 cpybuf/s slpcpybuf/s
    01:00:00 0.00 0.00
    02:00:00 0.00 0.00
    03:00:01 0.00 0.00
    04:00:01 0.00 0.00
    05:00:00 0.00 0.00
    06:00:00 0.00 0.00
    07:00:00 0.00 0.00
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 0.00 0.00
    08:40:00 0.00 0.00
    09:00:01 0.00 0.00
    09:20:00 0.00 0.00
    09:40:00 0.00 0.00
    10:00:00 0.00 0.00
    10:20:00 0.00 0.00
    10:40:01 0.00 0.00
    11:00:00 0.00 0.00
    11:20:00 0.00 0.00

    Average 0.00 0.00


    00:00:01 dptch/s idler/s swidle/s
    01:00:00 110.35 101.02 4.77
    02:00:00 110.24 100.97 4.72
    03:00:01 110.26 100.99 4.73
    04:00:01 110.30 101.00 4.74
    05:00:00 110.40 101.06 4.73
    06:00:00 110.27 100.99 4.74
    07:00:00 110.34 101.00 4.73
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 129.05 104.44 9.25
    08:40:00 139.82 112.32 16.86
    09:00:01 126.63 105.10 8.00
    09:20:00 118.74 101.75 7.46
    09:40:00 144.58 108.38 16.45
    10:00:00 118.06 102.43 6.75
    10:20:00 129.01 102.88 8.31
    10:40:01 127.32 104.02 9.16
    11:00:00 114.85 100.74 6.63
    11:20:00 116.19 101.64 6.91

    Average 115.44 102.08 6.28

    00:00:01 ovsiohw/s ovsiodma/s ovclist/s
    01:00:00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    02:00:00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    03:00:01 0.00 0.00 0.00
    04:00:01 0.00 0.00 0.00
    05:00:00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    06:00:00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    07:00:00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    08:40:00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    09:00:01 0.00 0.00 0.00
    09:20:00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    09:40:00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    10:00:00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    10:20:00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    10:40:01 0.00 0.00 0.00
    11:00:00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    11:20:00 0.00 0.00 0.00

    Average 0.00 0.00 0.00

    00:00:01 mpbuf/s ompb/s mphbuf/s omphbuf/s pbuf/s spbuf/s dmabuf/s sdmabuf/s
    01:00:00 0.00 0.00 0.09 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    02:00:00 0.00 0.00 0.08 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    03:00:01 0.00 0.00 0.08 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    04:00:01 0.00 0.00 0.09 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    05:00:00 0.00 0.00 0.08 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    06:00:00 0.00 0.00 0.09 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    07:00:00 0.00 0.00 0.12 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    08:03:03 unix restarts
    08:20:00 0.00 0.00 3.32 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    08:40:00 0.00 0.00 1.11 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    09:00:01 0.00 0.00 0.38 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    09:20:00 0.00 0.00 1.20 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    09:40:00 0.00 0.00 4.77 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    10:00:00 0.00 0.00 0.31 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    10:20:00 0.00 0.00 0.86 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    10:40:01 0.00 0.00 1.27 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    11:00:00 0.00 0.00 0.18 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    11:20:00 0.00 0.00 0.15 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

    Average 0.00 0.00 0.49 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
    #

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  4. Good News... but... by Chris+Tyler · · Score: 2


    This is good news. sar is a useful utility, and the folks at Starnix are good folks.

    But SCO is rewriting history in their press releases. "SAR was developed by SCO ..." ? Bzzzt.

    sar was a standard utility in Unix SVR4.2 and was included in UnixWare and other SVR4.2 releases before SCO bought UnixWare from Novell, and before Novell bought UnixWare from USL. It may have even existed in SVR3.X

  5. Re:What to use this for? by irix · · Score: 3

    Well, IRIX ships with a version of sar. I'm not sure what relationship it has with the sar that SCO is donating, but it can do a lot of stuff:

    - Report CPU utilization
    - Report buffer activity
    - Report activity for each block device, i.e., disk drives
    - Report TTY device activity
    - Report system calls
    - Report system swapping and switching activity
    - Report graphics activity
    - Report use of file access system routines
    - Report average queue length while occupied, and % of time occupied
    - Report status of process, i-node, file tables and record lock tables
    - Report message and semaphore activities
    - Report paging activities
    - Report translation lookaside buffer (TLB) activities
    - Report unused memory pages and disk blocks
    - Report system heap statistics
    - Report interrupt statistics

    It will also log this activity so you can monitor things over time.


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  6. Future vendor collaboration? by Diggety_Dank · · Score: 2

    Could this be a sign of the times to come? Major unix vendors open source'ing important apps and porting to other platforms? Sounds good to me, count me in!

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  7. Another gun on the unified front. by zak · · Score: 3

    This is good news; one of the things I miss most on Linux/*BSD is SAR (and SysV ps).
    Two notes:
    1) Regarding Doug Michels' "FUD"Ding: check out
    http://www.sco.com/linux/letter.html. Not the big bad wolf you thought he is; why wasn't _this_ put up here? (yes Rob, you _do_ have a sensationalist streak :)
    2) AFAIK Microsoft owns less than 10% of SCO, and can't make a move to grab the rest: SCO's contract with IBM says IBM've got dibs. It's also an employee-owned company (although I really don't know exactly how that's supposed to stop takeover - not an economistic bone in my body).