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sar command in Linux

By Karunesh Johri • Updated: May 27, 2023

The sar command under Linux and Unix systems gives the system activity reports. As the system works, a record of activities is kept in certain counters in the kernel. The sar command gives statistics regarding the CPU, I/O, paging, devices, memory, swap space, network, run queue length and load average, interrupts and power management. At …

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mpstat

By Karunesh Johri • Updated: May 27, 2023

The mpstat command in a Linux or Unix system gives the processor related statistics. mpstat is a part of the sysstat package for performance monitoring under Linux. The mpstat command gives the CPU utilization report and the hardware and software interrupts per second for each processor. By default, the CPU utilization report is printed. For …

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Tags: command, CPU, hardware, interrupts, Linux, mpstat, report, software, sysadmin, System administration, utilization