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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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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, 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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Monday 20 March 2006 |
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Version 0.13 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 mainly includes a bunch of bug fixes, but |
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also brings preliminary support for WIN32. We've also |
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added a few lines to the header file to make C++ linking |
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easier. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution for |
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full details. |
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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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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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bindings, has been released. Check out it's |
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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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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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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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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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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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DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend |
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system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style |
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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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