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[Adam Tauno Williams <adamtaunowilliams@xxxxxxxxx>]

> >> free tells me the amount of swap that is available and the amount that
> >> is currently in use. AFAIK, it doesn't tell me the maximum that has been
> >> used (like a high-water mark). I was hoping to discover some command
> >> that did before I resort to scripting.
> > To track performance use SNMP + an NMS(1) and/or sar (2).
> > (1) http://www.opennms.org
> > (2) man sar
> sar looks like what I need. Thanks Adam.
> The man page seems to indicate that I need to run sar, or one of its
> relatives, in the background to produce a stats file that I can then
> analyse.
> sar is on my machines but there's nothing in /var/log/sa/
> I haven't found any indications yet on the best way to set up the
> collection process. Is there a YaST feature to do this, for example? Or
> a HOW-TO?

/usr/sbin/rcsysstat start 

chkconfig sysstat on

Sar has been around since dirt, there are lots of docs floating around.
Start in file:/usr/share/doc/packages/sysstat/

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