Sysstat

The sysstat (system statistics) utilities are a collection of performance monitoring tools for Linux. They function as front ends to the kernel's filesystem. Sysstat was written by Sebastien Godard.

Kernel
In order for the sysstat utilities to work properly the following options must be made accessible in the kernel

USE flags
Add or remove the desired flags to or :

Emerge
Emerge :

Configuration
The file influences the behavior of  and (sadc(8))  (sar(1)). This file sourced from and it's syntax should thus conform to IEEE Std 1003.1.

The following variables will have some effect:

Statistics Collection and Aggregation
Statistics collection can be achieved by periodical execution of (which invokes ) and  (which invokes ).

The common approach is to use or.

Usage
The following tools are included with sysstat:

Examples
Coming soon...

External Resources

 * The SYSSTAT source code repository on GitHub
 * Official tutorials on how to use SYSSTAT
 * Official SYSSTAT Documentation

Man pages

 * cifsiostat(1)
 * iostat(1)
 * isag(1)
 * mpstat(1)
 * nfsiostat(1)
 * pidstat(1)
 * sadf(1)
 * sar(1)
 * sysstat(5)
 * sa1(8)
 * sa2(8)
 * sadc(8)