On Wed, 23 May 2007, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > I am trying to find out how many peek active process a server run in a given > time period, like in one day, and may be a week. I try to see how servers > handle heavy peak at time. > > I thought that systat vmstat, or others could provide me that. > > Unless I don't read the right man page, looks like the peak active stats > process are not kept anywhere. > > Is that the case, or is there a way to find more long term stats like that? > > man systat talk about boot stats: > > The following commands are specific to the vmstat and ifstat displays; > the minimum unambiguous prefix may be supplied. > > boot Display cumulative statistics since the system was booted. > run Display statistics as a running total from the point this command is > given. > time Display statistics averaged over the refresh interval (the de- fault). > zero Reset running statistics to zero.
systat doesn't support display of maxima. It would probably be trivial to add it though. -d
