[ale] Lost sar data?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Dec 29 15:19:12 EST 2016


Yes and no. It's stored in memory until a process writes it to disk.
Basic sar data is really just reading /proc for numbers. But that is of
course just in memory data. To store it requires a system process that
collects it. That usually runs in cron or as a daemon.
On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 13:50 -0500, leam hall wrote:
> On different VM hard resets, I've noticed that sar data is lost. On
> one reset, all data prior to the reset (0000-reset) was missing, on
> another all data after (crash-2350) was missing. 
> Any ideas why? Is the data stored in memory?
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