On 11/4/07, Stefan Parvu <stefanparvu14 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> What other people think about getting sysperfstat, swapinfo and nicstat
> into Solaris ?
>
> These tools are a great help for many SysAdmins and developers
> trying to understand how to read memory utilisation or saturation from a
> Solaris system. They are plain Perl tools reading kstat data so wont be
> a very difficult task to have them in.
>
> I would be glad to see them integrated into Solaris.
>
> http://www.brendangregg.com/k9toolkit.html
>
> comments !?

I think they're useful tools, but that they're limited by being point
solutions. I've got some like that too.

That's not to say that there's anything wrong with them, but what I don't
want is to have lots of different commands to get different facets of a
system - rather, I would like fewer commands capable of giving different
views.

But what these do show is that some existing tools are deficient. I
*really* like the swapinfo output - why can't the swap command
give something this useful? And surely netstat ought to be giving
something like nicstat?

-- 
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