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From: rlha...@smart.net (Richard L. Hamilton)
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by: Richard L. Hamilton - Mon, 10 May 2021 11:19 UTC

In article <60545fda$0$674$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
"Niels S. Eliasen" <nse@eliasen.co> writes:
> On 2021-03-15, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2021-03-15, Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> wrote:
>>> On 3/14/21 5:37 AM, Lewis wrote:
>>>> In message <s2jft8$1ugo$1@gioia.aioe.org> Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> wrote:
>>> will install the Xcode command-line tools (you do NOT need to install
>>>> the 12GB Xcode IDE) and then compile and install pretty much any UNIX
>>>> tools you want.
>>>
>>> All the tools I need came compiled up until now. Has that changed?
>>
>> How can anyone know if you don't list at least some of them.
>>
>> Like I said, macOS is still Unix. That means a shit ton of tools are
>> there.
>>
>
> but still missing "sar" and/or "sysstat" .... or is there someone who
> knows how to get it compiled and working (under Big Sur)?

Is sysstat Linux-specific? But AFAIK sar is a System V thing (not by
any means ALL flavors of Unix, although I gather at least some Linux
has it), and depends on what statistics the kernel makes reasonably
available. Where a similar set of statistics (device, buffer,
whatever) are available, one could probably provide similar
functionality in a port of sar. Apple has their own tools to a fair
degree, here's some of them:
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/PerformanceOverview/PerformanceTools/PerformanceTools.html

I was tempted to port acctcom from OpenSolaris, which I find more useful than
the Mac (and BSD?) sa(8) command, but I think the Mac's accounting file was
missing a field or two, and I probably decided I had better things to do.

Warp 7 -- It's a law we can live with.

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