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Old 11-12-2002
sar utility

can somebody provide me the Material on SAR utility for performance tuning
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Old 11-12-2002
Knowing the OS you are running would help but here are some links to information. (Your mileage may vary)

Sar man page (Princeton)

Linux.org - tools

SCO problem solving with sar ( Samag.com )
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Old 11-15-2002
For IBM AIX systems (5L in particular) you could read about the "sar" tool in "AIX 5L Performance Tools Handbook" from IBM:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg246039.pdf
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