How to change the collection interval of SAR data less than 1 minute
Issue
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Sar
comes with default 10 mins data collection interval, and can be changed it to 1 minute to edit/etc/cron.d/sysstat
as follows. How do we change it to less than 1 minute?*/1 * * * * root /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
For RHEL8, RHEL9 see '6981523-How to change the collection interval of the SAR data in RHEL8 and RHEL 9 to 1 second?'.
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