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What is the difference between sar and vmstat/iostat/netstat in solaris?

Asked by: atluruchowdary | Member Since Mar-2006 | Asked on: Mar 6th, 2006

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Answered On : Mar 11th, 2006

Hi,sar = system activity reportervmstat = virtual memory stat counetriostat = input/output stat counternetstat = network stat counter Sar is basically used for getting the performance stats of a system over a period of time , this gives us a awful amount of data , but once mastered is very good vmstat can be used to gather stats on the cpu , memory like paging , the processes etc iostat is for the stats on disk activity and also nfs mounts netstat is for network stats

  
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