sadc to sar

[Herta Van den Eynde]

2008/9/11 Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Herta Van den Eynde
> <herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A customer asked us for fine grained performance data, so I ran
>> "/usr/lib/sa/sadc -F -L 10 17280 /tmp/sadc.out"  and verified that the
>> file was updated every 10 seconds.  The resulting output file is 37MB.
>>
>> I then wanted to use sar to convert the sadc file to a sar file, but
>> I'm having problems doing so.  Using "sar -A -i 10 -f /tmp/sadc.out |
>> head -n 20" returns:
>>
>>
>
> Did you try it without the -i ? I got the following:
>
> 10:51:53 AM   runq-sz  plist-sz   ldavg-1   ldavg-5  ldavg-15
> 10:52:01 AM         0       219      0.28      0.26      0.20
> 10:52:11 AM         0       219      0.24      0.25      0.19
> 10:52:21 AM         1       218      0.20      0.24      0.19
> 10:52:31 AM         1       218      0.17      0.23      0.19
> 10:52:41 AM         1       218      0.29      0.26      0.20
> 10:52:51 AM         0       218      0.25      0.25      0.19
> 10:53:01 AM         1       218      0.21      0.24      0.19
> 10:53:11 AM         0       218      0.17      0.23      0.19
> 10:53:21 AM         1       219      0.15      0.22      0.18
> 10:53:31 AM         0       219      0.20      0.23      0.19
> 10:53:41 AM         0       219      0.17      0.22      0.18
> 10:53:51 AM         0       219      0.14      0.21      0.18
> 10:54:01 AM         0       219      0.12      0.21      0.18
> 10:54:11 AM         0       219      0.10      0.20      0.18
> 10:54:21 AM         0       219      0.08      0.19      0.17
> 10:54:31 AM         0       218      0.07      0.19      0.17
> 10:54:41 AM         0       218      0.06      0.18      0.17
> 10:54:51 AM         1       218      0.05      0.17      0.17
> 10:55:01 AM         0       218      0.28      0.22      0.18
> 10:55:11 AM         0       218      0.24      0.21      0.18
> Average:            0       218      0.17      0.22      0.18
>
> with sar -A -f /tmp/sadc.out
>
> but the file was only 20 in length.
>
>>
>> Herta
>> --
> --
> Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
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>

Thanks for the suggestion, Stephen.  I did try that and it gives the
same result.

Kind regards,

Herta

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