<html><head></head><body><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 13:50 -0500, leam hall wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>Any ideas why? Is the data stored in memory?<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div><a href="http://leamhall.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mind on a Mission</a></div></div>
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