07-25-2012
All of the performance statistics programs take statistics at a user-defined interval. If not, they would bombard the kernel with requests and make the computer slow.
Programs top and glance are designed for short-term monitoring of a server.
Programs vmstat iostat, and sar are suitable for long-term monoring as well as snapshots. Of these sar (see man sadc) is most suited for gathering historical statistics.
Might help if you mentioned what statistics you are looking at and why!
To answer your question, none of them are a continuous rolling average. Some of the figures in glance and top are cumulative since the monitoring began but details of individual processes come from the kernel's records since the process started (which could be months or years ago, depending on how often you boot your servers).
Last edited by methyl; 07-25-2012 at 10:52 AM..
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NAME
paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango
SYNOPSIS
paps [options] files...
DESCRIPTION
paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
through the pango ft2 backend.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below.
--landscape
Landscape output. Default is portrait.
--columns=cl
Number of columns output. Default is 1.
--font=desc
Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.
--rtl Do rtl layout.
--paper ps
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--bottom-margin=bm
Set bottom margin in postscript points (1/72 inch). Default is 36.
--top-margin=tm
Set top margin. Default is 36.
--left-margin=lm
Set left margin. Default is 36.
--right-margin=rm
Set right margin. Default is 36.
--help Show summary of options.
--header
Draw page header for each page.
--markup
Interpret the text as pango markup.
--encoding=ENCODING
Assume the documentation encoding is ENCODING.
--lpi Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.
--cpi Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.
--stretch-chars
Indicates that characters should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
behaviour.
AUTHOR
paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.
This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
April 17, 2006 PAPS(1)