sar man page says that one can specify the resolution in seconds for its output.
However, I am not able to get a second level resolution by the following command.
sar -i 1 -f /var/log/sa/sa18
11:00:01 AM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
11:10:01 AM all 0.04 0.00 0.04 0.00 0.01 99.91
11:20:01 AM all 0.04 0.00 0.04 0.00 0.00 99.92
11:30:01 AM all 0.04 0.00 0.04 0.00 0.00 99.92
Following command too does not give second level resolution:
sar -f /var/log/sa/sa18 1
I am able to get second-level result only if I do not specify the -f option:
sar 1 10
08:34:31 PM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
08:34:32 PM all 0.12 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 99.88
08:34:33 PM all 0.00 0.00 0.12 0.00 0.00 99.88
08:34:34 PM all 0.00 0.00 0.12 0.00 0.00 99.88
But I want to see system performance varying by second for some past day.
How do I get sar to print second-level output with the -f option?
Linux version: Linux 2.6.32-642.el6.x86_64
sar version : sysstat version 9.0.4
I think the exist sar report file 'sa18' collected with an interval 10 mins. So we don't get the output in seconds.
Please check the /etc/cron.d/sysstat file.
[root@testserver ~]# cat /etc/cron.d/sysstat
#run system activity accounting tool every 10 minutes
*/10 * * * * root /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1
#generate a daily summary of process accounting at 23:53
53 23 * * * root /usr/lib64/sa/sa2 -A
If you want to reduce the sar interval interval you can modify the sysstat file.