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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Unix Performance Monitoring
Message-ID: <1073@bu-cs.bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 20-Aug-86 01:38:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 20 01:38:55 1986
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Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci.
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>I was wondering if anyone has a program to periodically monitor the
>performance of a Unix machine. What I have in mind is a program that
>sits around and every now and then writes some statistics to a file,
>like disk activity, cpu utilization, network load, etc. We would like
>to run this on a Sun station, but any BSD 4.2 program would do.

I don't have such a program but look at Sun's rstatd(8) daemon that
perfmeter uses, then look at /usr/include/rpcsvc/rstat.h, uh huh,
ok, get to work!

	-Barry Shein, Boston University