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i-scream libstatgrab homepage |
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<a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a> |
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<a id="news">News</a> |
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To get notifications of new libstatgrab releases why not |
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subscribe to our project over on |
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<a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/libstatgrab/">freshmeat</a>? |
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Sunday 21 March 2004 |
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pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python |
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bindings, has been released. Check out it's |
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Wednesday 10 March 2004 |
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Version 0.9 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
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This release brings new features and new platforms. We've |
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added information about network interfaces (duplex, speed, |
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etc) along with further statistics such as i/o packets, i/o |
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errors, and collisions. Support has also been added for |
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OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD. Finally some work has been done |
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to reduce the platforms on which libstatgrab needs elevated |
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privileges. See the NEWS file for more information. |
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Wednesday 11 February 2004 |
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Version 0.8.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
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The main focus of this release is adding support for |
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Solaris 6. We've also added Python bindings so you can use |
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libstatgrab directly from Python (see the extras |
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directory). Finally, we've tidied up a few bits of the |
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Wednesday 21 January 2004 |
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Version 0.8.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
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This release primarily fixes bugs. On Linux a file |
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descriptor leak was fixed. On Solaris some significant |
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speed increases were made to the disk mapping code, along |
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with some bug fixes for Solaris 7 platforms. Also, the |
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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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Tuesday 6 January 2004 |
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Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
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Download it |
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This release brings support for Linux 2.6 and partial |
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support for Cygwin. On Solaris libstatgrab now returns disk |
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names using cNtNdNsN names rather than the older sdN names. |
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There are also a bunch of fixes and optimisations in |
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various places. Finally, a new function has been added to |
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make it quicker to drop any elevated privileges libstatgrab |
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Wednesday 22 October 2003 |
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Version 0.7 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
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Download it |
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The most significant change in this release is support for |
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NetBSD 1.6.x. Parts of the FreeBSD code have been |
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optimised, and an initialise function has been added to |
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allow programs to drop any extra privileges libstatgrab |
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needs. The list of known file systems has been increased, |
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and libstatgrab has been tested on even more platforms. |
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Finally, saidar has been tweaked to work even if it can't |
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get all the statistics. |
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Saturday 18 October 2003 |
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Version 0.6.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
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This release brings support for FreeBSD 5 on sparc 64, and |
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some bugfixes in FreeBSD memory statistics. Also, some |
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fixes to saidar, and statgrab. |
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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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This release includes some exciting new tools, support for |
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FreeBSD 5.1, and documentation in manpages. Plus some major |
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We're pleased to announce a new release of |
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libstatgrab.<br /> |
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You can download version 0.5.1 from |
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Monday 25 August 2003 |
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We're pleased to announce a new release of |
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You can download version 0.5 from |
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This release provides both documentation and examples, |
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which we hope will make the package more useable. Stay |
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tuned for the next release with some useful tools. |
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libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform |
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access to statistics about the system on which it's run. |
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It's written in C and presents a selection of useful |
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interfaces which can be used to access key system |
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statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU |
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network traffic, disk I/O, and more. |
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The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux |
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DragonFly BSD 1.0, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to |
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The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The |
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first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a |
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system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style |
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Included with statgrab is a script to generate an |
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The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from |
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mirror</a>. All downloads are pgp signed using our |
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For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL |
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files contained within the archive. If you're using |
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manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably |
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