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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Can't understand sar command Post 302141880 by melias on Tuesday 23rd of October 2007 07:04:57 AM
Old 10-23-2007
SAR output

Shaan,

There's a cron job which runs every 5 minutes which records system statistics. This is the default output of SAR if no time options are specified at the command line.

The output is reporting on the percentage your system has spent running processes within each state. The first column represents processes run by users, whilst the second reports on system (or kernel) processes. I/O is the next column, which are processes that transfer data (most commonly read/write to disks) whilst the last column is reporting system idle.

MAN pages will provide more detailed explanations, but the above should give you a basic understanding of what SAR reports on by default.
 

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WHO(1)							    BSD General Commands Manual 						    WHO(1)

NAME
who -- display who is logged in SYNOPSIS
who [-abdHlmpqrsTtu] [file] who am i DESCRIPTION
The who utility displays a list of all users currently logged on, showing for each user the login name, tty name, the date and time of login, and hostname if not local. Available options: -a Same as -bdlprTtu. -b Time of last system boot. -d Print dead processes. -H Write column headings above the regular output. -l Print system login processes (unsupported). -m Only print information about the current terminal. This is the POSIX way of saying who am i. -p Print active processes spawned by launchd(8) (unsupported). -q ``Quick mode'': List only the names and the number of users currently logged on. When this option is used, all other options are ignored. -r Print the current runlevel. This is meaningless on Mac OS X. -s List only the name, line and time fields. This is the default. -T Print a character after the user name indicating the state of the terminal line: '+' if the terminal is writable; '-' if it is not; and '?' if a bad line is encountered. -t Print last system clock change (unsupported). -u Print the idle time for each user, and the associated process ID. am I Returns the invoker's real user name. file By default, who gathers information from the file /var/run/utmpx. An alternative file may be specified. FILES
/var/run/utmpx SEE ALSO
last(1), mesg(1), users(1), getuid(2), utmpx(5) STANDARDS
The who utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1''). HISTORY
A who utility appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. BSD
January 17, 2007 BSD
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