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Revision: 1.61
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Release libstatgrab 0.91 and pystatgrab 0.6.

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3 <title>
4 libstatgrab homepage
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9 <div id="container">
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12 <div id="contents">
13 <h1 class="top">
14 libstatgrab homepage
15 </h1>
16 <div id="topnav">
17 <ul>
18 <li>
19 <a href="#what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
20 </li>
21 <li>
22 <a href="#news">News</a>
23 </li>
24 <li>
25 <a href="#download">Downloading</a>
26 </li>
27 <li>
28 <a href="#bindings">Language Bindings</a>
29 </li>
30 <li>
31 <a href="#packages">Packages</a>
32 </li>
33 <li>
34 <a href="#development">Development</a>
35 </li>
36 <li>
37 <a href="#documentation">Documentation</a>
38 </li>
39 <li>
40 <a href="#screenshot">Screenshot</a>
41 </li>
42 </ul>
43 </div>
44 <h2>
45 <a id="what">What is libstatgrab?</a>
46 </h2>
47 <p>
48 libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform
49 access to statistics about the system on which it's run.
50 It's written in C and presents a selection of useful
51 interfaces which can be used to access key system
52 statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU
53 usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts,
54 network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
55 </p>
56 <p>
57 The current list of supported and tested platforms
58 includes FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris,
59 DragonFly BSD, HP-UX and AIX. We are always happy to
60 accept patches to extend support to other operating
61 systems.
62 </p>
63 <p>
64 The package also includes a couple of useful tools. The
65 first, <a href="#screenshot">saidar</a>, provides a
66 curses-based interface to viewing the current state of the
67 system. The second, statgrab, gives a sysctl-style
68 interface to the statistics gathered by libstatgrab. This
69 extends the use of libstatgrab to people writing scripts or
70 anything else that can't easily make C function calls.
71 Included with statgrab is a script to generate an
72 <a href="http://www.mrtg.org">MRTG</a> configuration file
73 to use statgrab.
74 </p>
75 <h2>
76 <a id="news">News</a>
77 </h2>
78 <h3>
79 Friday 11 July 2014
80 </h3>
81 <p>
82 Version 0.91 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
83 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
84 </p>
85 <p>
86 This release includes a number of bugfixes and new
87 features but is API compatible with 0.90.
88 </p>
89 <ul>
90 <li>Use /proc/mounts on Linux where available.</li>
91 <li>Add a new field named device_canonical to the filesystem
92 statistics.</li>
93 <li>Fix list miscounting in sg_set_valid_filesystems.</li>
94 <li>Fix buffer overrun when dealing with a larger number of
95 processes.</li>
96 <li>Fix divide by zero display problem in saidar.</li>
97 <li>When logging with log4cplus is enabled, properties files
98 are installed in to ${prefix}/etc.</li>
99 <li>Add Graphite output support in statgrab.</li>
100 </ul>
101 <p>
102 A full list of changes can be found in the
103 <a href="http://git.i-scream.org/?p=libstatgrab.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;h=3fbe52269637c4e68aab0d70b0419343889a4d4f;hb=d8d6c819ee007eb03bc95a48a614bcefec229b42">NEWS</a>
104 file contained within the release.
105 </p>
106 <p>
107 If you find any bugs in the release please report them
108 over at our
109 <a href="https://github.com/i-scream/libstatgrab/issues">Issue
110 Tracker</a> on GitHub.
111 </p>
112 <h3>
113 Thursday 8 August 2013
114 </h3>
115 <p>
116 Version 0.90 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
117 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
118 Please note this and future releases are signed with a new
119 <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP key</a>.
120 </p>
121 <p>
122 Please note that the API in 0.90 has changed, so
123 applications using libstatgrab will need to be updated to
124 support the changes.
125 </p>
126 <p>
127 There are a large number of changes in this version of
128 libstatgrab. Here is an overview:
129 </p>
130 <ul>
131 <li>Thread safety and reentrant functions.</li>
132 <li>API unification (every stats call is now able to
133 return multiple entries).</li>
134 <li>Complete rewrite of internal memory management (eases
135 future extensions).</li>
136 <li>Add experimental support for tracing using log4cplus.</li>
137 <li>Complete the ports for AIX, HP-UX and most of the
138 widely used BSD-based operating systems.</li>
139 <li>Complete the port for Darwin/MacOS X including basic
140 Mach.</li>
141 <li>Clean up the FreeBSD and Solaris implementations.</li>
142 <li>Clean up the FreeBSD and Solaris implementations.</li>
143 </ul>
144 <p>
145 This release is the result of a significant amount of work
146 by the newest member of the libstatgrab team - Jens
147 Rehsack. Welcome to the team Jens!
148 </p>
149 <p>
150 If you find any bugs in the release please report them
151 over at our
152 <a href="https://github.com/i-scream/libstatgrab/issues">Issue
153 Tracker</a> on GitHub.
154 </p>
155 <h3>
156 Sunday 21 February 2010
157 </h3>
158 <p>
159 Version 0.17 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
160 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
161 </p>
162 <p>
163 This release adds support for FreeBSD 9 and other systems
164 using utmpx. Also on FreeBSD it fixes an issue with large
165 quantities of memory and adds support for dynamically
166 getting a list of supported file systems. On Solaris ZFS
167 file systems will now be detected. And finally on Linux CPU
168 iowait information will be given where available.
169 </p>
170 <h3>
171 Friday 30 May 2008
172 </h3>
173 <p>
174 Dag Odenhall got in touch today to let us know he's written
175 <a href="http://statgrab.rubyforge.org/">Ruby bindings</a>
176 for libstatgrab. Thanks Dag!
177 </p>
178 <h3>
179 Monday 17 March 2008
180 </h3>
181 <p>
182 Version 0.16 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
183 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
184 </p>
185 <p>
186 This release fixes some minor build problems on Solaris
187 with Sun's compiler, and on the Debian "armel" port. Also
188 a minor fix to statgrab-make-mrtg-config on machines with
189 no swap, and added support for FreeBSD 8.
190 </p>
191 <h3>
192 Saturday 14 July 2007
193 </h3>
194 <p>
195 Version 0.15 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
196 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
197 </p>
198 <p>
199 This release fixes a regression introduced on OpenBSD in
200 the last release - memory statistics were reported
201 incorrectly. Some other minor changes have been made, see
202 the NEWS file for more information.
203 </p>
204 <h3>
205 Monday 8 January 2007
206 </h3>
207 <p>
208 Version 0.14 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
209 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
210 </p>
211 <p>
212 This release contains mainly bugfixes - see the NEWS file
213 in the distribution for a full list. It also brings a new
214 feature in saidar: colour support, which can be activated
215 with the -c runtime flag.
216 </p>
217 <h3>
218 Monday 20 March 2006
219 </h3>
220 <p>
221 Version 0.13 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
222 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
223 </p>
224 <p>
225 This release mainly includes a bunch of bug fixes, but
226 also brings preliminary support for WIN32. We've also
227 added a few lines to the header file to make C++ linking
228 easier. Please see the NEWS file in the distribution for
229 full details.
230 </p>
231 <h3>
232 Sunday 31 July 2005
233 </h3>
234 <p>
235 Version 0.12 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
236 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
237 </p>
238 <p>
239 This release has some new features, bug fixes, and a minor
240 API change. More details have been added to the file
241 system statistics, linux partition detection has been
242 reworked, and compile errors on Linux 2.6 have been fixed.
243 Support has been added for Solaris 10 and FreeBSD 7.
244 There are also manual pages for all the tools.
245 </p>
246 <p>
247 The duplex value in the network interface statistics has
248 changed name from "dup" to "duplex" - this breaks the API.
249 We plan to stabilise the API for a 1.0 release. As before,
250 the old name is available if SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED is
251 defined.
252 </p>
253 <h3>
254 Tuesday 26 April 2005
255 </h3>
256 <p>
257 Official libstatgrab packages for Debian now
258 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">available</a>.
259 </p>
260 <p>
261 Thanks to the work of
262 <a href="mailto:fenio@debian.org">Bartosz Fenski</a>
263 libstatgrab is now available on debian. This replaces our
264 unofficial debian packages which will no longer be
265 updated.
266 </p>
267 <h3>
268 Thursday 3 March 2005
269 </h3>
270 <p>
271 Version 0.11.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
272 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
273 </p>
274 <p>
275 This release fixes a handful of minor bugs. Duplex
276 settings were reported incorrectly on linux (half and
277 full duplex were swapped), saidar displayed negative
278 filesystem stats incorrectly, and NFS filesystems were
279 ignored. These have all been fixed.
280 </p>
281 <h3>
282 Friday 12 November 2004
283 </h3>
284 <p>
285 Version 0.11 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
286 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
287 </p>
288 <p>
289 This release brings support for HP-UX (version 11.11), and
290 also fixes a few other minor issues.
291 </p>
292 <h3>
293 Wednesday 25 August 2004
294 </h3>
295 <p>
296 Version 0.10.3 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
297 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
298 </p>
299 <p>
300 This release adds a handful of new features to statgrab, and
301 adds support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. See the NEWS file in
302 the tarball for more details.
303 </p>
304 <h3>
305 Tuesday 27 July 2004
306 </h3>
307 <p>
308 Version 0.10.2 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
309 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
310 </p>
311 <p>
312 This release fixes a problem with the shared library
313 version number in the last release.
314 </p>
315 <h3>
316 Monday 26 July 2004
317 </h3>
318 <p>
319 Version 0.10.1 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
320 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
321 </p>
322 <p>
323 This release consists almost entirely of bugfixes.
324 We've fixed compile-time errors for recent OpenBSD and
325 NetBSD platforms, and also a minor bug in statgrab
326 that broke network statistics on Solaris. New
327 variables have been added to the pkg-config file to
328 suggest ownership and permissions of binaries, and
329 we've added error reporting functions that store errno
330 values. There's also other minor fixes detailed in the
331 NEWS file.
332 </p>
333 <h3>
334 Thursday 20 May 2004
335 </h3>
336 <p>
337 Version 0.10 of libstatgrab has been released.<br />
338 Download it from one of our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirrors</a>.
339 </p>
340 <p>
341 This release concentrates heavily on standardising the names
342 of functions and structures throughout libstatgrab. Although
343 this will mean changes for existing programs, in the long run
344 we hope it'll make things both clearer and easier. However,
345 for those who still need the old functions we have provided
346 compatibility wrappers. See the NEWS file for details.
347 </p>
348 <p>
349 The other main change in this release is a new function to
350 provide full details on currently running processes. See the
351 documentation for sg_get_process_stats for details. Along with
352 this there are compare functions for use with qsort for sorting
353 process, network, and disk io statistics. We've also introduced
354 error reporting functions that allow calling applications to
355 see why libstatgrab has returned a failure. See sg_get_error.
356 </p>
357 <p>
358 Finally, we've added support for NetBSD 2.0 and tidied up lots
359 of areas of the code. This release does not include the python
360 bindings - they're now available as their own project called
361 <a href="/pystatgrab/">pystatgrab</a>.
362 </p>
363 <h3>
364 Sunday 21 March 2004
365 </h3>
366 <p>
367 pystatgrab, a new package containing a set of Python
368 bindings, has been released. Check out its
369 <a href="/pystatgrab/">project page</a>.
370 </p>
371 <h2>
372 <a id="download">Downloading</a>
373 </h2>
374 <p>
375 The latest version of libstatgrab can be downloaded from
376 our <a href="/mirrors.xhtml">mirror sites</a>.
377 All downloads are pgp signed using our
378 <a href="/pgpkey.xhtml">PGP Key</a>.
379 </p>
380 <p>
381 For installation instructions see the README and INSTALL
382 files contained within the archive.
383 </p>
384 <h2>
385 <a id="bindings">Language Bindings</a>
386 </h2>
387 <ul>
388 <li>
389 <a href="/pystatgrab/">Python</a>
390 </li>
391 <li>
392 <a href="http://pecl.php.net/statgrab/">PHP</a>
393 </li>
394 <li>
395 <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Unix-Statgrab/">Perl</a>
396 </li>
397 <li>
398 <a href="http://statgrab.rubyforge.org/">Ruby</a>
399 </li>
400 </ul>
401 <p>
402 Here are links to bindings for higher level languages
403 that provide access to libstatgrab. If you've written
404 a binding for another language, please get in touch so we
405 can add a link here.
406 </p>
407 <h2>
408 <a id="packages">Packages of libstatgrab</a>
409 </h2>
410 <ul>
411 <li>
412 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=statgrab&amp;stype=all">FreeBSD</a>
413 </li>
414 <li>
415 <a href="http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=libstatgrab">Gentoo Linux</a>
416 </li>
417 <li>
418 <a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libstatgrab">Solaris (Blastwave)</a>
419 </li>
420 <li>
421 <a href="http://www.sunfreeware.com/">Solaris (SunFreeware)</a>
422 </li>
423 <li>
424 <a href="http://www.opencsw.org/packages/libstatgrab/">Solaris (OpenCSW)</a>
425 </li>
426 <li>
427 <a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/libstatgrab">Debian</a>
428 </li>
429 <li>
430 <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/devel/libstatgrab/README.html">NetBSD</a>
431 </li>
432 <li>
433 <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/anagappan/">RPMs for various Linux distributions</a>
434 </li>
435 <li>
436 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/sysutils/libstatgrab/">OpenBSD</a>
437 </li>
438 </ul>
439 <p>
440 These are various pre-packaged versions of libstatgrab
441 that you can get for your favourite operating system. If
442 we've missed any out, please let us know.
443 </p>
444 <p>
445 We've noticed that Google throws up some RPM's relating
446 to Mandrake and Suse, but no webpage for them.
447 </p>
448 <h2>
449 <a id="documentation">Documentation</a>
450 </h2>
451 <p>
452 The only online documentation we have at the moment is the
453 manual pages converted in to HTML format. First are the
454 manual pages for the command line tools:
455 </p>
456 <ul>
457 <li>
458 <a href="docs/saidar.1.html">saidar(1)</a>
459 </li>
460 <li>
461 <a href="docs/statgrab.1.html">statgrab(1)</a>
462 </li>
463 <li>
464 <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-config.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-config(1)</a>
465 </li>
466 <li>
467 <a href="docs/statgrab-make-mrtg-index.1.html">statgrab-make-mrtg-index(1)</a>
468 </li>
469 </ul>
470 <p>
471 We also have an overview page for the library:
472 </p>
473 <ul>
474 <li>
475 <a href="docs/statgrab.3.html">statgrab(3)</a>
476 </li>
477 </ul>
478 <p>
479 Then we have the manual pages for each function:
480 </p>
481 <ul>
482 <li>
483 <a href="docs/sg_comp_init.3.html">sg_comp_init(3)</a>
484 </li>
485 <li>
486 <a href="docs/sg_get_cpu_stats.3.html">sg_get_cpu_stats(3)</a>
487 </li>
488 <li>
489 <a href="docs/sg_get_disk_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_disk_io_stats(3)</a>
490 </li>
491 <li>
492 <a href="docs/sg_get_error.3.html">sg_get_error(3)</a>
493 </li>
494 <li>
495 <a href="docs/sg_get_fs_stats.3.html">sg_get_fs_stats(3)</a>
496 </li>
497 <li>
498 <a href="docs/sg_get_host_info.3.html">sg_get_host_info(3)</a>
499 </li>
500 <li>
501 <a href="docs/sg_get_load_stats.3.html">sg_get_load_stats(3)</a>
502 </li>
503 <li>
504 <a href="docs/sg_get_mem_stats.3.html">sg_get_mem_stats(3)</a>
505 </li>
506 <li>
507 <a href="docs/sg_get_network_iface_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_iface_stats(3)</a>
508 </li>
509 <li>
510 <a href="docs/sg_get_network_io_stats.3.html">sg_get_network_io_stats(3)</a>
511 </li>
512 <li>
513 <a href="docs/sg_get_page_stats.3.html">sg_get_page_stats(3)</a>
514 </li>
515 <li>
516 <a href="docs/sg_get_process_stats.3.html">sg_get_process_stats(3)</a>
517 </li>
518 <li>
519 <a href="docs/sg_get_user_stats.3.html">sg_get_user_stats(3)</a>
520 </li>
521 <li>
522 <a href="docs/sg_init.3.html">sg_init(3)</a>
523 </li>
524 <li>
525 <a href="docs/sg_internal-intro.3.html">sg_internal-intro(3)</a>
526 </li>
527 <li>
528 <a href="docs/sg_intro.3.html">sg_intro(3)</a>
529 </li>
530 <li>
531 <a href="docs/sg_lock_mutex.3.html">sg_lock_mutex(3)</a>
532 </li>
533 <li>
534 <a href="docs/sg_set_error.3.html">sg_set_error(3)</a>
535 </li>
536 <li>
537 <a href="docs/sg_vector_create.3.html">sg_vector_create(3)</a>
538 </li>
539 </ul>
540 <h2>
541 <a id="screenshot">Screenshot</a>
542 </h2>
543 <p>
544 Here's what saidar looks like when it's running:
545 </p>
546 <p>
547 <img src="saidar.png" alt="saidar screenshot" />
548 </p>
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