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<h1>libstatgrab</h1> |
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<li><a href="#news">News</a></li> |
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<li><a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a></li> |
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<li><a href="#download">Downloading</a></li> |
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<a name="news"><h2>News</h2></a> |
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To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not subscribe |
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to our project over on <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/"> |
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<b>Wednesday 10 March 2004</b><br><br> |
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Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br> |
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Download it |
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<a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.9.tar.gz">here</a>. |
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This release brings new features and new platforms. We've added |
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information about network interfaces (duplex, speed, etc) along |
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with further statistics such as i/o packets and i/o errors. Support |
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has also been added for OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some |
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work has been done to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab |
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needs elevated privileges. See the NEWS file for more information. |
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<b>Wednesday 11 February 2004</b><br><br> |
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Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br> |
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Download it |
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<a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.2.tar.gz">here</a>. |
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The main focus of this release is adding support for Solaris 6. |
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We've also added python bindings so you can use libstatgrab directly |
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from python (see the extras directory). Finally, we've tidied up a |
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few bits of the code. |
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<b>Wednesday 21 January 2004</b><br><br> |
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Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br> |
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Download it |
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<a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.1.tar.gz">here</a>. |
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This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file descriptor leak was |
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fixed. On Solaris some significant speed increases were made to the |
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disk mapping code, along with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. |
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Also, the library part of libstatgrab (but not the tools) is now |
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released under the LGPL instead of the GPL. |
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<b>Tuesday 6 January 2004</b><br><br> |
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Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br> |
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Download it |
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<a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.8.tar.gz">here</a>. |
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This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial support for Cygwin. |
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On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk names using cNtNdNsN names rather |
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than the older sdN names. There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations |
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in various places. Finally, a new function has been added to make it |
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quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab may require on some |
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operating systems. |
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<b>Wednesday 22 October 2003</b><br><br> |
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Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br> |
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Download it |
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<a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.7.tar.gz">here</a>. |
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The most significant change in this release is support for NetBSD |
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1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been optimised, and an initialise |
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function has been added to allow programs to drop any extra privileges |
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libstatgrab needs. The list of known file systems has been increased, |
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and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms. Finally, |
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saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't get all the |
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<b>Saturday 18 October 2003</b><br><br> |
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Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br> |
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Download it |
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<a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.1.tar.gz">here</a>. |
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This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and some |
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bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some fixes to saidar, |
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<b>Friday 10 October 2003</b><br><br> |
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Version 0.6 of libstatgrab has been released.<br> |
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You can download it from our mirror site |
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<a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.6.tar.gz">here</a>. |
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This release includes some exciting new tools, support for FreeBSD |
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5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major bugfixes and |
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packaging enhancements. |
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<b>Tuesday 09 September 2003</b><br><br> |
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We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br> |
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You can download version 0.5.1 from |
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<a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.1.tar.gz">here</a>. |
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<b>Monday 25 August 2003</b><br><br> |
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We're pleased to announce a new release of libstatgrab.<br> |
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You can download version 0.5 from |
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<a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.5.tar.gz">here</a>. |
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This release provides both documentation and examples, which |
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we hope will make the package more useable. Stay tuned for the |
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next release with some useful tools. |
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libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to |
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statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and |
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presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access |
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key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU |
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usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network |
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traffic, disk I/O, and more. |
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The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.2/2.4/2.6, |
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Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to include as many operating |
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The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The first, |
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<a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a curses-based interface to |
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viewing the current state of the system. The second, statgrab, gives a |
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sysctl-style interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This |
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extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or anything |
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else that can't easily make C function calls. Included with statgrab is |
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a script to generate an <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> |
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configuration file to use statgrab. |
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<a name="download"><h2>Downloading</h2></a> |
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The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from our |
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<a href="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/libstatgrab">mirror</a>. |
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All downloads are pgp signed using our <a href="/pgpkey.shtml">PGP Key</a>. |
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For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL files |
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contained within the archive. If you're using |
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> you can make use of the |
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<li><a href="cpu_percent_usage.html">cpu_percent_usage(3)</a></li> |
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<li><a href="get_general_stats.html">get_general_stats(3)</a></li> |
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<li><a href="get_load_stats.html">get_load_stats(3)</a></li> |
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<li><a href="get_process_stats.html">get_process_stats(3)</a></li> |
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