1 The following people have contributed to 'sysstat' in one way or another:
3 First I would like to thank Michael <michael [at] roka.net>: He is the
4 very first person to have given me feedback about sysstat, and to
5 point out to me that certain fields in /proc/stat didn't have the
6 meaning I thought they had. This was in 1999!
8 Many thanks to the translators involved in sysstat:
10 * Birko Bergt <birko.bergt [at] gmx.de> for his translation into
12 * Fernando Félix Redondo <fernando.felix [at] rediris.es> for his
13 translation into Spanish (now maintained by Muralito
14 <muralito [at] montevideo.com.uy>),
15 * Frederic L. W. Meunier <0 [at] pervalidus.net> for the
16 Portuguese translation.
17 * Gert Brits <gbrits [at] techconcepts.co.za> for the translation
19 * Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy [at] karlsbakk.net> for the Norwegian
21 * Stefano Barni <barninga [at] interfree.it> for the translation
23 * Dennis Selsky <selsky [at] siberia.net> for the Russian translation.
24 * Eugen Hoanca <eugenh [at] urban-grafx.ro> for the Romanian
26 * Robert Luberda <robert [at] debian.org> for the translation into
28 * Miroslav David <md20128 [at] decef.elf.stuba.sk> for the Slovak
30 * Hideki Yamane <henrich [at] samba.gr.jp> for the translation into
32 * Daniel Nylander <po [at] danielnylander.se> for the Swedish
34 * John Damm Sørensen <john [at] hovedpuden.dk> for the Danish
36 * Bram Schoenmakers <bramschoenmakers [at] kde.nl> for the Dutch
39 Carl-Christian Weber <ccweber [at] itz-koeln.de> helped me to make sar
42 Stefan Majer <smajer [at] advance-bank.de> provided me with a patch to
43 rotate daily system activity files.
45 Klaus Franken <klaus.franken [at] fth2.siemens.de> created the RPM
46 packages. He also included a short initialization script for sar
47 to start it as a daemon on boot.
49 Jason (Jay) R. Fink <jay_rf [at] exis.net> set up and maintained the
50 first web site for sysstat.
52 Preston Brown <pbrown [at] redhat.com> sent me the RedHat patch to
53 enable good packaging.
55 David Doubrava <linux_monitor [at] volny.cz> created the isag
56 command (Interactive System Activity Graph).
58 Rik van Riel <riel [at] conectiva.com.br> explained me the meaning
59 of several fields that were added in Linux kernel 2.4
62 Hubert Nueckel <hubert.nueckel [at] oracle.com> sent me a patch to
63 fix CPU utilization displayed by sar, iostat and mpstat commands
66 Victor Hazlewood <victor [at] sdsc.edu> sent me a patch to implement
67 a database friendly option for sar (option -H).
69 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard [at] redhat.com> added the ability to
70 display kB/s transfers to devices in iostat reporting when
73 John Caruso <caruso [at] paradiso.umuc.edu> wrote the sargon script
74 shell as a replacement for sa1/sa2 files.
76 Wilhelm Nuesser <wilhelm.nuesser [at] sap.com> sent me a patch to
77 fix average wait times and service times displayed by iostat -x.
79 Rick Lindsley <ricklind [at] us.ibm.com> has played a great part in
80 making sysstat work on kernels 2.5 and above.
82 John Salmon <John.Salmon [at] cw.com> wrote a patch to enable file
83 locking for sadc (option -L).
85 Jim W. Jaszewski <grok [at] sprint.ca> fixed several typos in
88 Charlie Bennett <ccb [at] redhat.com> sent me several patches to
89 fix known problems with sysstat. He also added the sysstat.ioconf
90 file support, and the -p option to sar.
92 Thomas Polliard <thomas [at] polliard.com> helped me define the XML
93 output format for sadf. He also wrote the corresponding DTD.
95 Dwight Tovey <dtovey [at] emergecore.com> updated sysstat so that
96 it may be installed on Slackware.
98 Bryce Harrington <bryce [at] osdl.org> helped me to add support for
99 hotplug CPU to sysstat.
101 Ivana Varekova <varekova [at] redhat.com> added support for iostat
102 NFS statistics. Ivana also added support for autoconf, and created
105 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp [at] redhat.com> made history configurable.
107 Robert Luberda <robert [at] debian.org> brought a few improvements
108 to sysstat's code, and also reported several bugs.
110 Jeroen Roovers <jer [at] gentoo.org> sent me a patch to fix a rare
111 parallel make issue creating archive libsyscom.a.
113 Livio Soares <livio [at] eecg.toronto.edu> sent me a patch to fix
114 a bug where mpstat didn't parse /proc/interrupts correctly when
115 some CPUs had been set offline.
117 Emil Glatz <Emil.Glatz [at] wescoglobal.com> wrote the XML Schema
118 to be used with sadf option -x.
120 Eduardo Ferro Aldama <eduardo.ferro.aldama [at] gmail.com> added
121 option -l to pidstat to display the process command name and
124 Mario Konrad <Mario.Konrad [at] gmx.net> added regular expressions
125 support to pidstat'x option -C. He also added option -s to pidstat
126 to display task stack statistics.
128 Jan Kaluza <jkaluza [at] redhat.com> contributed several patches
129 to sysstat. Among them, he added some more power management
132 Alain Chéreau <cheralain [at] googlemail.com> added support for
133 disk groups statistics to iostat.
135 Cédric Marie <cedric.marie [at] openmailbox.org> sent me
136 several patches to improve pidstat.
138 Robert Elliott <Elliott [at] hp.com> contributed the irqtop
139 command, and Lance Shelton <Lance.Shelton [at] sandisk.com>
142 Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis [at] gmx.net> contributed the
143 sargraph2 plotting tool.
145 Shane M. SEYMOUR <shane.seymour [at] hpe.com> contributed the
148 I would also thank the following people for their hints or bug reports
149 (in alphabetical order):
151 Des Atkinson <Des.Atkinson@met[...].uk>
152 Alexander Bangert <bangert.alex@gma[...].com>
153 Sravan Bhamidipati <bsravanin@gma[...].com>
154 Chuck Blake <cb@mit[...].edu>
155 Michael Blakeley <mike@bla[...].com>
156 Pascal Bleser <pbleser@ato[...].com>
157 Lodewijk Bonebakker <jlbonebakker@gma[...].com>
158 Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gma[...].com>
159 Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@int[...].com>
160 Xavier Bru <xavier.bru@bul[...].net>
161 Jason Burnett <jason@jnj[...].org>
162 Fabricio Ceolin <ceolin@ule[...].com
163 Vitezslav Cizek <vcizek@sus[...].cz>
164 Mark J. Cox <mjc@red[...].com>
165 Jean Dagenais <jean.dagenais@int[...].com>
166 Nicolas Denis <denisn@wan[...].fr>
167 Andrew Donkin <ard@wai[...].nz>
168 Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi[...].com>
169 Tony Ernst <tee@sgi[...].com>
170 Chris Evans <chris@sca[...].org>
171 Damien Faure <damien-jn.faure@bul[...].net>
172 James Fraser <jameswfraser@gma[...].com>
173 Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dave@tre[...].org>
174 David Gesswein <djg@drs[...].com>
175 Frank Glinka <glinkaf@uni[...].de>
176 John Goodyear <johngood@us[...].com>
177 Gurinder Shergill <gurinder.shergill@hp[...].com>
178 Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara@uno[...].cz>
179 Don Harrop <don@swb[...].com>
180 Mark Harvey <markh794@gma[...].com>
181 Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@lin[...].com>
182 Jürgen Heinemann <heinemann.juergen@hjc[...].de>
183 Kei Ishida <ishida.kei@oss[...].jp>
184 Tatsuo Ito <tito@mir[...].com>
185 David S. Jackson <dsj@syl[...].net>
186 Erik Jacobson <erikj@sub[...].com>
187 Jordan <ledzep37@hom[...].com>
188 Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4[...].nl>
189 Jonathan Kamens <jik@kam[...].us>
190 Ilya Katsnelson <ilya.katsnelson@mot[...].com>
191 Steve Kay <stevekay@gma[...].com>
192 Sampsa Kiiskinen <tuplanolla@gma[...].com>
193 Mike Kobler <mkobler@gma[...].com>
194 John Lau <johnlcf@gma[...].com>
195 Byeong-taek Lee <btlee@psy[...].kr>
196 Breno Leitao <breno.leitao@gma[...].com>
197 Ivo Letzas <letzas@for[...].nu>
198 Wayne Lin <wlin@mvi[...].com>
199 Gunnar Lindholm <lindholm.gunnar@gma[...].com>
200 Neculai Macarie <macarie.neculai@nex[...].com>
201 Robert Macaulay <Robert_Macaulay@Del[...].com>
202 Pierre Machard <pmachard@deb[...].org>
203 Jérôme Marchand <jmarchan@red[...].com>
204 Alan Matsuoka <alanm@red[...].com>
205 Rodney J. Mertz <rjm@elv[...].com>
206 Roy Millar <100044.14@com[...].com>
207 Chris Minshull <CMinshull@nyx[...].com>
208 Pascal Monschein <ext.astek.monschein@snc[...].fr>
209 Chris Morrow <cmorrow@ver[...].com>
210 David J. Morse <David_J_Morse@Del[...].com>
211 Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.[...].com>
212 Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gma[...].com>
213 Muneyuki Noguchi <nogu.dev@gma[...].com>
214 Giulio Orsero <giulioo@pob[...].com>
215 Edouard G. Parmelan <edouard.parmelan@qua[...].fr>
216 Oliver Paukstadt <oliver.paukstadt@mil[...].com>
217 Plattner(?) <Plattner.external@inf[...].com>
218 Peter Portante <peter.a.portante@gma[...].com>
219 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yah[...].ar>
220 ReDragon <redragon@vns[...].net>
221 Amir Rapson <amir.rapson@gma[...].com>
222 Paul Rivoli <paul@kbs[...].au>
223 Scott Rochford <Scott_Rochford@DEL[...].com>
224 Rolphin <rolphin@fre[...].fr>
225 Jeroen Roovers <jer@gen[...].org>
226 Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@sus[...].cz>
227 Joseph E. Sacco <jsacco@ear[...].net>
228 Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.[...].com>
229 Eivind Sarto <ivan@kas[...].com>
230 Danilo Sartori <d.sartori@res[...].it>
231 Tan Shao Yi <tansy@tan[...].org>
232 Yibin Shen <zituan@taobao.com>
233 Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.[...].com>
234 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@red[...].com>
235 Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@jus[...].net>
236 Michal Sekletar <msekleta@red[...].com>
237 Michel Simoni <m_simoni@clu[...].fr>
238 Gabrielle Singleton <gelle@umi[...].edu>
239 Rod Skinner <rod.skinner@int[...].com>
240 Kevin C. Smallwood <kcs@lin[...].com>
241 Dick Snippe <Dick.Snippe@tec[...].nl>
242 Alexis Solanas <alexis@red[...].com>
243 Graham Swallow <gps@tri[...].uk>
244 Mike Sweger <mikesw@whi[...].net>
245 Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian@goo[...].com>
246 Don Totten <dontotten@ibm[...].net>
247 Alexander Troosh <trush@yan[...].ru>
248 Stephen Tweedie <sct@red[...].com>
249 Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@sus[...].cz>
250 Thomas Weber <TWEBER@de.[...].com>
251 Yongjun Wei <yjwei@nan[...].com>
252 Stefan Wild <SWILD@de.[...].com>
253 Thomas Winn <tcwinn@gma[...].com>
254 Mike Winter <mike.winter@usa[...].ca>
255 Holger Wolf <Holger.Wolf@de.[...].com>
256 Urban Widmark <urban@sve[...].se>
257 Yu Yongcong <yuyc@cn.[...].com>
258 Peter Zaitsev <pz@spy[...].ru>
259 Zhen Zhang <furykerry@gma[...].com>
262 Sebastien Godard (sysstat <at> orange.fr) is the author and the current
263 maintainer of this package.