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

  
Total Answers and Comments: 1 Last Update: March 12, 2006     Asked by: atluruchowdary 
  
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RE: What is the difference between sar and vmstat/iost...
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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