[plug] NetBSD's systat on Linux?

[Matthew Lambie]

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 18:41 +0800, msp wrote:
> Google says:
> 
> On or around June 24, 2003 09:09 PM Steve Friedl wrote this: #
> 
> The "sysstat" package works fine on my Red Hat 8.0 based 2.4 kernel, and
> it shows how busy the drives are.
> 
> http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/59040/sysstat.html
> 
> It's still there, don't know if it's the same though.

The package doesn't have systat as a binary though, and the output of
iostat is nothing like systat. Argh.

> 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 09:38, Matthew Lambie wrote:
> > I was reading an article about Cobalt Qubes: http://www.shon.org/qube/
> > Part way through this writeup the author shows the output from a BSD
> > application called 'systat': http://www.shon.org/qube/systat.gif
> > 
> > This looks much nicer than 'iostat -x' which is what I use to get disk
> > performance. My question is, do any of you mad hax0rs know if systat has
> > been ported to Linux? 
> > 
> > Debian/Ubuntu's 'sysstat' (note the two s in the middle) doesn't have a
> > 'systat' binary, but does has 'iostat'. It appears that elsewhere
> > (Debian security archive) the one or two s is interchangeable, so it
> > might be the same package.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.org.au
> http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug
> Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au
-- 

Thanks,

Matthew Lambie
Technical Director

THE FRONTIER GROUP, PTY. LTD.
Suite 17/44 Kings Park Road
West Perth, WA  6005
Australia

w: http://thefrontiergroup.com.au
e: mlambie at thefrontiergroup.com.au
f: +61 (08) 6263 4444
m: +61 408 866 997