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 making statistics easy to access. Sysstat was written by Sebastien Godard.

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 on Gentoo:

Examples
Use iostat to watch the input/output of data to attached drives, display the output in megabytes:

External Resources

 * The Sysstat source code repository on GitHub.
 * Official tutorials on how to use Sysstat.
 * Official Sysstat documentation.


 * The cifsiostat man page locally ( man cifsiostat ) or online.
 * The iostat man page locally ( man iostat ) or online.
 * The mpstat man page locally ( man mpstat ) or online.
 * The pidstatman page locally ( man pidstat ) or online.
 * The sadf man page locally ( man sadf ) or online.
 * The sar man page locally ( man sar ) or online.
 * The sysstat man page locally ( man sysstat ) or online.
 * The sa1 man page locally ( man sa1 ) or online.
 * The sa2 man page locally ( man sa2 ) or online.
 * The sadc man page locally ( man sadc ) or online.