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Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
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This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names |
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this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run |
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we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However, |
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for those who still need the old functions we have provided |
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compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details. |
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The other main change in this release is a new function to |
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this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting |
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process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced |
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error reporting functions that allow calling applications to |
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see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error. |
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Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots |
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of areas of the code. This release does not include the python |
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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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Download it |
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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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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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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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Version 0.8 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
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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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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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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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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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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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This release provides both documentation and examples, |
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libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform |
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statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU |
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The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The |
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Here's what saidar looks like when it's running: |
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<img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" /> |
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