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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="what">What is libstatgrab?</a> |
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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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usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, |
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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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2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x, |
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DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend |
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this to include as many operating systems as possible. |
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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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curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the |
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system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style |
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interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This |
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extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or |
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anything else that can't easily make C function calls. |
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Included with statgrab is a script to generate an |
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<a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file |
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to use statgrab. |
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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 31 July 2005 |
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Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
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Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>. |
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This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor |
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API change. More details have been added to the file |
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system statistics, linux partition detection has been |
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reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed. |
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Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7. |
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There are also manual pages for all the tools. |
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The duplex value in the network interface statistics has |
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changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API. |
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We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before, |
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the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is |
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defined. |
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Tuesday 26 April 2005 |
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Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now |
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<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>. |
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Thanks to the work of |
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<a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a> |
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libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our |
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unofficial debian packages which will no longer be |
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updated. |
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Thursday 3 March 2005 |
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Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
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Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>. |
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This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex |
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settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and |
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full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative |
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filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were |
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ignored. These have all been fixed. |
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Friday 12 November 2004 |
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Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
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Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>. |
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This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and |
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also fixes a few other minor issues. |
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Wednesday 25 August 2004 |
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Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
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Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>. |
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This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and |
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adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in |
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the tarball for more details. |
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Tuesday 27 July 2004 |
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Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
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Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>. |
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This release fixes a problem with the shared library |
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version number in the last release. |
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Monday 26 July 2004 |
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Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
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Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>. |
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This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes. |
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We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and |
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NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab |
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that broke network statistics on Solaris. New |
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variables have been added to the pkg-config file to |
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suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and |
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we've added error reporting functions that store errno |
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values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the |
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NEWS file. |
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Thursday 20 May 2004 |
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Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br /> |
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Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>. |
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This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names |
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of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although |
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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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provide full details on currently running processes. See the |
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documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with |
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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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bindings - they're now available as their own project called |
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<a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</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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<a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>. |
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<a id="download">Downloading</a> |
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The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from |
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our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>. |
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All downloads are pgp signed using our |
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<a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>. |
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For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL |
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files contained within the archive. |
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<a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a> |
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<a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a> |
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<a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP (external)</a> |
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<a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl (external)</a> |
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Here are links to bindings for higher level languages |
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that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written |
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a binding for another language, please get |
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<a href="mailto:support@i-scream.org">in touch</a> so we |
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can add a link here. |
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<a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a> |
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&stype=all">FreeBSD</a> |
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<a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=statgrab">Gentoo Linux</a> |
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<a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a> |
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<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a> |
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<a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a> |
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These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab |
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that you can get for your favourite operating system. If |
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we've missed any out, please let us know. |
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We've noticed that google throws up some RPM's relating |
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to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them. |
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Several attempts were made to submit a port to the |
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OpenBSD folk, but they didn't seem interested in taking |
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it. You can find it |
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<a id="development">Development</a> |
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<a href="/cgi-bin/cvslog.cgi?period=thisweek&module=projects/libstatgrab">Commits this week</a> |
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We develop libstatgrab using the CVS revision control system. |
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Using this link you can see what changes we've made this week. |
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For more information on our CVS setup see our |
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<a id="documentation">Documentation</a> |
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The only online documentation we have at the moment is the |
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manual pages converted in to HTML format. It's probably |
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best to start with the overview manual page: |
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<a href="statgrab.html">statgrab(3)</a> |
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Then we have the manual pages for each function: |
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<a href="sg_get_cpu_stats.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a> |
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<a href="sg_get_disk_io_stats.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a> |
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<a href="sg_get_fs_stats.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a> |
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<a href="sg_get_host_info.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a> |
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<a href="sg_get_load_stats.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a> |
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<a href="sg_get_mem_stats.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a> |
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<a href="sg_get_network_iface_stats.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a> |
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<a href="sg_get_network_io_stats.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a> |
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<a href="sg_get_page_stats.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a> |
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<a href="sg_get_process_stats.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a> |
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<a href="sg_get_user_stats.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a> |
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Here's what saidar looks like when it's running: |
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