Re: Using PCP to log sysstat metrics

[Marko Myllynen <myllynen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 2015-04-14 15:15, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Marko Myllynen <myllynen@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> [...]  there was some off-list discussion what it would require to
>> use PCP to collect the exact same metrics which sysstat collects by
>> default on many distributions with: [...]
> 
> Have you seen the src/pmlogconf/tools/sar file?  It sounds like
> someone's already done the analysis.  It's even activated by default,
> at the 1-minute sampling interval.  Or are you specifically interested
> in not recording anything but the sar stuff?

no and yes, I hadn't seen it before and I was interested in minimal
steps to create something that records just the sar stuff. But looks
like there are now several ways to achieve it so should be easy to do so
if needed.

Thanks,

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Marko Myllynen