R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Troy Engel wrote: > >> Also install 'sysstat' (comes prepackaged with all modern >> RedHat/CentOS), which is a rewrite of the venerable sa* tools from > > Dag's dstat is a even later, and perhaps friendlier implementation. While not it any way knocking dstat, it's not the same thing as sar; sar uses two collection agents (sa1, sa2) to record historic data over intervals to be later interpreted. dstat is a realtime oriented diagnostic tool, not historic. They are best used together, as they have two seperate concepts in mind - I think it's better to only compare dstat with the specific realtime functionality of sar. -te -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com