Messages in this thread |  | | From | (John Henders) | Subject | Re: Admin util wish list | Date | 15 Jul 1996 04:08:05 -0700 |
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In <Pine.LNX.3.91.960715043431.27172m-100000@reflections.mindspring.com> Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.com> writes:
>I've been thinking about the various admin/system-admin utils which other >systems have and how useful they'd be under Linux.
>Util OS presently on Comments >---- --------------- -------- >sysctl BSD /proc/sys seems set up to do this >sysinfo solaris I don't know of anything which comes close >sar solaris ditto >UERF digital u./vms syslog on steroids, but nice system > reporting iostat BSDI,FreeBSD, like vmstat but for i/o. reports sectors/sec, NetBSD disk transfers/sec and ms/seek as well as tty io and cpu. systat BSDI,FreeBSD Full screen system statistics display NetBSD Various modes, the most interesting is the vmstat mode. Looks a bit like the output of procinfo but with way more detail, displaying things like paging, memory use, number of copys on write zfod, and other kernel statistics that are very handy to see when things going wrong. u386mon SCO sort of a super top, with multiple pages showing network statistics, kernel and memory statistics and a top like display of top cpu using processes.
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