HowTo: Create sar Graphs With kSar [ Identifying Linux Bottlenecks ]

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"From the collected data, you get lots of information about your server:

"CPU utilization
Memory paging and its utilization
Network I/O, and transfer statistics
Process creation activity
All block devices activity
Interrupts/sec etc.

"sar output can be used for identifying server bottlenecks. However, analyzing information provided by sar can be difficult, so use kSar, which can take sar output and plot a nice easy to understand graph over period of time."

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