Welcome to the Dayton Linux Users Group

SAR, or System Activity Report, is a command-line utility in Linux used for collecting, reporting, and saving system activity information. It is a powerful tool for monitoring and analyzing various performance metrics of a Linux system. Mike Linden will demo the typical uses of SAR for us.

We’ll also talk about our upcoming Installfest on October 4th.

As always, we’ll also have discussion time for Linux and Open Source news, projects you’re working on, and questions for the rest of the group.

SAR Presentation Slides: https://linux.dma1.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/SAR-presentation.pdf

We don’t have any specific topic for this month, so let’s just have an open discussion time. Linux and Open Source news, projects you’re working on, and questions for the rest of the group – it’s all fair game! If you have ideas for future programs or activities, we’ll have time to talk about those as well.

Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and “what just happened to kill our performance?” problems.

JMB has used Munin successfully for several years to track various systems’ parameters over a period of time. In this presentation, he will demonstrate the use (and possibly an installation) of Munin and what it can display.

As always, we’ll also have discussion time for Linux and Open Source news, projects you’re working on, and questions for the rest of the group.

Website: https://munin-monitoring.org/