Thoughts from the abyss

I found a cool new tool which I’d never used before today at Dag’s site. Check out Dstat if you want a neat tool for Linux system reporting. You can do some nice custom layouts. What’s nice is this is one tool in place of things like vmstat, iostat, nfsstat, netstat, etc. Output looks like this.

[root@laptop ~]# dstat -c -d -m -l -n --nocolor
----total-cpu-usage---- -dsk/total- ------memory-usage----- ---load-avg--- -net/total-
usr sys idl wai hiq siq| read  writ| used  buff  cach  free| 1m   5m  15m | recv  send
  3   3  91   2   0   0| 166k  294k| 630M   19M 1310M   58M| 0.3  0.4  0.5|   0     0
  2   3  96   0   0   0|   0     0 | 630M   19M 1310M   58M| 0.3  0.4  0.5| 206B   64B
  2   3  95   0   0   0|   0    16k| 631M   19M 1310M   57M| 0.2  0.4  0.5|1435B 2333B
  1   3  96   0   0   0|   0     0 | 631M   19M 1310M   57M| 0.2  0.4  0.5| 697B 1527B
  6   5  89   0   0   0|   0    60k| 631M   19M 1310M   57M| 0.2  0.4  0.5| 188B    0

Very sweet. Thanks for packaging this, Dag!