[ale] Lost sar data?

[Leam Hall]

Hmm...these were 6 and 8 hour losses, so probably not a disk sync issue.

On 12/29/16 15:19, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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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