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20.Dd Jul 25 2003 \" DATE
21.Dt sa1 8 \" Program name and manual section number
22.Os "Mac OS X"
23.Sh NAME \" Section Header - required - don't modify
24.Nm sa1
25.Nd Generate a system activity daily data file.
26.Sh SYNOPSIS \" Section Header - required - don't modify
27.Nm /usr/lib/sa/sa1
28.Op Ar t n \" [t n]
29.Sh DESCRIPTION \" Section Header - required - don't modify
30The
34d340d7 31.Nm sa1
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32command is a shell script used to invoke the system
33activity data collector,
34.Nm sadc .
35The binary sample data is collected at intervals
36.Ar t
37seconds apart, in a loop
38.Ar n
39times.
40The binary sample data is written to the standard
41daily data file,
42.Ar /var/log/sa/sadd
43where the
44.Ar dd
45represents the current day of the month.
46.Pp \" Inserts a space
34d340d7 47.Nm sa1
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48is intended to be started by cron.
49.Sh EXAMPLE CRON ENTRY
50.Bd -literal
51# Starting at 8am collect system activity records
52# every 20 minutes for 12 hours
53# 20 minutes = 1200 seconds
54# 12 hours with 3 samples each hour = 36 loops
55
560 8 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1200 36
57
58
59# After the 12 hour period,
60# collect a system activity report
61
6230 20 * * 1-5 /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A
63
64.Ed
65.Pp
66.Sh FILES \" File used or created by the topic of the man page
67.Bl -tag -width "/var/log/sa/sadd" -compact
68.It Pa /var/log/sa/sadd
69Default daily activity file that holds the binary sampling data.
70.Ar dd
71are digits that represent the day of the month.
72.El
73.Sh SEE ALSO
74.\" List links in ascending order by section, alphabetically within a section.
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75.Xr crontab 1 ,
76.Xr fs_usage 1 ,
c3a08f59 77.Xr netstat 1 ,
34d340d7 78.Xr sar 1 ,
c3a08f59 79.Xr sc_usage 1 ,
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80.Xr top 1 ,
81.Xr vm_stat 1 ,
82.Xr crontab 5 ,
83.Xr iostat 8 ,
84.Xr sa2 8 ,
85.Xr sadc 8