bsdsar - System Activity Reporter

Last Updated: November 17, 2004

bsdsar is a system tool for FreeBSD.
Records data such as:


disk usage

cpu usage (interrupt, system, idle, etc)

memory usage

network usage

NFS usage

Top 5 high mem processes

Top 5 high cpu processes

Data is polled at intervals (usually every 20minutes during the day, and hourly in evening/night hours) and is stored for later usage.

Current version is 1.10 (bsdsar-1.10.tar.gz)
You can also download a FreeBSD package here: (bsdsar-1.10.tgz)

You can find the README here.

Following is from the CHANGELOG:

BSDSAR version 1.10
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- added config file functionality (thanks Krzystof)
- config file allows selection of which data to log
- config file allows setting of max dat file size

BSDSAR version 1.00
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- fixed bug for 100% busy on other items
- added ps options (-s and -S)
- faster runtime with the -n netstat option (thanks Um)

BSDSAR version 0.10
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- fixed bug in 100% busy for user, etc.

BSDSAR version 0.9
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- new option -h now shows help, using bsdsar without options show -u now
- now, any option with a -h will show 'helpful' headers for that option
- If log file is > 2100000 bytes, it trims down to size and continues updating

BSDSAR version 0.8
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- new option -v shows version information
- fixed bug in 100% idle time - now displays correctly
- possibly fixed scsi disk display problem
- tweaked output of network info display - looks better

Needs to eventually crop old data from log file

BSDSAR version 0.7
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- new option -I shows network usage over time
- new option -a show all data stored

BSDSAR version 0.6
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- NFS client / server data is now stored and displayed with the -N option


BSDSAR version 0.5
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First real release.
Options include:
- Select different data files from any directory
- Select day and/or month to view info about
- supports disk, memory, cpu and network usage.

NFS should be implemented in version 0.6

Eric Anderson
http://www.googlebit.com/bsdsar/