sadc - System activity data collector

The sadc command samples system data a specified number of times at a specified interval measured in seconds. It writes to the specified output file or the standard output in binary format. The sadc command is a backend to the sar command.
Data about, for example, the following areas is captured:
  • CPU utilization
  • Disk I/O overview and on device level
  • Network I/O and errors on device level
  • Memory usage and swapping
The tools report statistics data over time and create average values for each item.