sa1(8) BSD System Manager's Manual sa1(8)NAMEsa1 — Generate a system activity daily data file.
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/sa/sa1 [t n]
DESCRIPTION
The sa1 command is a shell script used to invoke the system activity data
collector, sadc. The binary sample data is collected at intervals t sec‐
onds apart, in a loop n times. The binary sample data is written to the
standard daily data file, /var/log/sa/sadd where the dd represents the
current day of the month.
sa1 is intended to be started by cron.
EXAMPLE CRON ENTRY
# Starting at 8am collect system activity records
# every 20 minutes for 12 hours
# 20 minutes = 1200 seconds
# 12 hours with 3 samples each hour = 36 loops
0 8 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1200 36
# After the 12 hour period,
# collect a system activity report
30 20 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A
FILES
/var/log/sa/sadd Default daily activity file that holds the binary sam‐
pling data. dd are digits that represent the day of
the month.
SEE ALSOsa2(8), sadc(8), sar(1), iostat(8), vm_stat(1), netstat(1), top(1),
sc_usage(1), fs_usage(1), crontab(1), crontab(5)Mac OS X Jul 25 2003 Mac OS X