The following people have contributed to 'sysstat' in one way or another: First I would like to thank Michael <michael [at] roka.net>: He is the very first person to have given me feedback about sysstat, and to point out to me that certain fields in /proc/stat didn't have the meaning I thought they had. This was in 1999! Many thanks to the translators involved in sysstat: * Birko Bergt <birko.bergt [at] gmx.de> for his translation into German, * Fernando Félix Redondo <fernando.felix [at] rediris.es> for his translation into Spanish (now maintained by Muralito <muralito [at] montevideo.com.uy>), * Frederic L. W. Meunier <0 [at] pervalidus.net> for the Portuguese translation. * Gert Brits <gbrits [at] techconcepts.co.za> for the translation into Afrikaans. * Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy [at] karlsbakk.net> for the Norwegian translation. * Stefano Barni <barninga [at] interfree.it> for the translation into Italian. * Dennis Selsky <selsky [at] siberia.net> for the Russian translation. * Eugen Hoanca <eugenh [at] urban-grafx.ro> for the Romanian translation. * Robert Luberda <robert [at] debian.org> for the translation into Polish. * Miroslav David <md20128 [at] decef.elf.stuba.sk> for the Slovak translation. * Hideki Yamane <henrich [at] samba.gr.jp> for the translation into Japanese. * Daniel Nylander <po [at] danielnylander.se> for the Swedish translation. Carl-Christian Weber <ccweber [at] itz-koeln.de> helped me to make sar work on SMP machines. Stefan Majer <smajer [at] advance-bank.de> provided me with a patch to rotate daily system activity files. Klaus Franken <klaus.franken [at] fth2.siemens.de> created the RPM packages. He also included a short initialization script for sar to start it as a daemon on boot. Jason (Jay) R. Fink <jay_rf [at] exis.net> set up and maintained the first web site for sysstat. Preston Brown <pbrown [at] redhat.com> sent me the RedHat patch to enable good packaging. David Doubrava <linux_monitor [at] volny.cz> created the isag command (Interactive System Activity Graph). Rik van Riel <riel [at] conectiva.com.br> explained me the meaning of several fields that were added in Linux kernel 2.4 /proc/meminfo file. Hubert Nueckel <hubert.nueckel [at] oracle.com> sent me a patch to fix CPU utilization displayed by sar, iostat and mpstat commands on IA64 machines. Victor Hazlewood <victor [at] sdsc.edu> sent me a patch to implement a database friendly option for sar (option -H). Christopher Blizzard <blizzard [at] redhat.com> added the ability to display kB/s transfers to devices in iostat reporting when option -x is used. John Caruso <caruso [at] paradiso.umuc.edu> wrote the sargon script shell as a replacement for sa1/sa2 files. Wilhelm Nuesser <wilhelm.nuesser [at] sap.com> sent me a patch to fix average wait times and service times displayed by iostat -x. Rick Lindsley <ricklind [at] us.ibm.com> has played a great part in making sysstat work on kernels 2.5 and above. John Salmon <John.Salmon [at] cw.com> wrote a patch to enable file locking for sadc (option -L). Jim W. Jaszewski <grok [at] sprint.ca> fixed several typos in sysstat FAQ! Charlie Bennett <ccb [at] redhat.com> sent me several patches to fix known problems with sysstat. He also added the sysstat.ioconf file support, and the -p option to sar. Thomas Polliard <thomas [at] polliard.com> helped me define the XML output format for sadf. He also wrote the corresponding DTD. Dwight Tovey <dtovey [at] emergecore.com> updated sysstat so that it may be installed on Slackware. Bryce Harrington <bryce [at] osdl.org> helped me to add support for hotplug CPU to sysstat. I would also thank the following people for their hints or bug reports (in alphabetical order): Des Atkinson <Des.Atkinson@met[...].uk> Chuck Blake <cb@mit[...].edu> Pascal Bleser <pbleser@ato[...].com> Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@int[...].com> Xavier Bru <xavier.bru@bul[...].net> Jason Burnett <jason@jnj[...].org> Mark J. Cox <mjc@red[...].com> Jean Dagenais <jean.dagenais@integral.com> Nicolas Denis <denisn@wan[...].fr> Andrew Donkin <ard@wai[...].nz> Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi[...].com> Chris Evans <chris@sca[...].org> Damien Faure <damien-jn.faure@bul[...].net> David Gesswein <djg@drs[...].com> Don Harrop <don@swb[...].com> Tatsuo Ito <tito@mir[...].com> David S. Jackson <dsj@syl[...].net> Erik Jacobson <erikj@sub[...].com> Jordan <ledzep37@hom[...].com> Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4[...].nl> Ilya Katsnelson <ilya.katsnelson@mot[...].com> Byeong-taek Lee <btlee@psy[...].kr> Ivo Letzas <letzas@for[...].nu> Robert Luberda <robert@deb[...].org> Neculai Macarie <macarie.neculai@nex[...].com> Robert Macaulay <Robert_Macaulay@Del[...].com> Pierre Machard <pmachard@deb[...].org> Alan Matsuoka <alanm@red[...].com> Rodney J. Mertz <rjm@elv[...].com> Roy Millar <100044.14@com[...].com> Pascal Monschein <ext.astek.monschein@snc[...].fr> David J. Morse <David_J_Morse@Del[...].com> Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.[...].com> Giulio Orsero <giulioo@pob[...].com> Edouard G. Parmelan <edouard.parmelan@qua[...].fr> Oliver Paukstadt <oliver.paukstadt@mil[...].com> Plattner(?) <Plattner.external@inf[...].com> ReDragon <redragon@vns[...].net> Paul Rivoli <paul@kbs[...].au> Scott Rochford <Scott_Rochford@DEL[...].com> Rolphin <rolphin@fre[...].fr> Joseph E. Sacco <jsacco@ear[...].net> Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.[...].com> Danilo Sartori <d.sartori@res[...].it> Tan Shao Yi <tansy@tan[...].org> Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.[...].com> Michel Simoni <m_simoni@clu[...].fr> Rod Skinner <rod.skinner@int[...].com> Dick Snippe <Dick.Snippe@tec[...].nl> Graham Swallow <gps@tri[...].uk> Mike Sweger <mikesw@whi[...].net> Don Totten <dontotten@ibm[...].net> Stephen Tweedie <sct@red[...].com> Thomas Weber <TWEBER@de.[...].com> Yongjun Wei <yjwei@nan[...].com> Holger Wolf <Holger.Wolf@de.[...].com> Urban Widmark <urban@sve[...].se> Peter Zaitsev <pz@spy[...].ru> -- Sebastien Godard (sysstat <at> wanadoo.fr) is the author and the current maintainer of this package.
