[H-GEN] Linux 'iostat'?

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Mark Suter <suter at zwitterion.humbug.org.au> writes:

> Bradley,
> > Is there an equivalent of 'iostat' for Linux?
> Yes, although it may not be installed on your system.  Under
> Debian GNU/Linux, install the package "sysstat".

Now that this discussion has started, and after I saw my load
skyrocket to 25(!) because of SpamAssassin (seems I finally tickled
its bugs?) I'm wondering if there is a tutorial on how to interpret
sar(1) output or similar?

Playing with options and having a working knowledge of how a system is
put together is enough to get gross ideas of what's going on, but I'm
sure there are subtleties I'm missing---or maybe even a better tool?

jason
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