CREDITS

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.
	  * John Damm Sørensen <john [at] hovedpuden.dk> for the Danish
	    translation.
	  * Bram Schoenmakers <bramschoenmakers [at] kde.nl> for the Dutch
	    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.

	Ivana Varekova <varekova [at] redhat.com> added support for iostat
	NFS statistics. Ivana also added support for autoconf, and created
	cifsiostat command.

	Nils Philippsen <nphilipp [at] redhat.com> made history configurable.

	Robert Luberda <robert [at] debian.org> brought a few improvements
	to sysstat's code, and also reported several bugs.

	Jeroen Roovers <jer [at] gentoo.org> sent me a patch to fix a rare
	parallel make issue creating archive libsyscom.a.

	Livio Soares <livio [at] eecg.toronto.edu> sent me a patch to fix
	a bug where mpstat didn't parse /proc/interrupts correctly when
	some CPUs had been set offline.

	Emil Glatz <Emil.Glatz [at] wescoglobal.com> wrote the XML Schema
	to be used with sadf option -x.

	Eduardo Ferro Aldama <eduardo.ferro.aldama [at] gmail.com> added
	option -l to pidstat to display the process command name and
	arguments.

	Mario Konrad <Mario.Konrad [at] gmx.net> added regular expressions
	support to pidstat'x option -C. He also added option -s to pidstat
	to display task stack statistics.

	Jan Kaluza <jkaluza [at] redhat.com> contributed several patches
	to sysstat. Among them, he added some more power management
	statistics to sar.

	Alain Chéreau <cheralain [at] googlemail.com> added support for
	disk groups statistics to iostat.

	Cédric Marie <cedric.marie [at] openmailbox.org> sent me
	several patches to improve pidstat.

I would also thank the following people for their hints or bug reports
(in alphabetical order):

	Des Atkinson <Des.Atkinson@met[...].uk>
	Sravan Bhamidipati <bsravanin@gma[...].com>
	Chuck Blake <cb@mit[...].edu>
	Michael Blakeley <mike@bla[...].com>
	Pascal Bleser <pbleser@ato[...].com>
	Lodewijk Bonebakker <jlbonebakker@gma[...].com>
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gma[...].com>
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@int[...].com>
	Xavier Bru <xavier.bru@bul[...].net>
	Jason Burnett <jason@jnj[...].org>
	Fabricio Ceolin <ceolin@ule[...].com
	Vitezslav Cizek <vcizek@sus[...].cz>
	Mark J. Cox <mjc@red[...].com>
	Jean Dagenais <jean.dagenais@int[...].com>
	Nicolas Denis <denisn@wan[...].fr>
	Andrew Donkin <ard@wai[...].nz>
	Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi[...].com>
	Tony Ernst <tee@sgi[...].com>
	Chris Evans <chris@sca[...].org>
	Damien Faure <damien-jn.faure@bul[...].net>
	James Fraser <jameswfraser@gma[...].com>
	Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dave@tre[...].org>
	David Gesswein <djg@drs[...].com>
	Frank Glinka <glinkaf@uni[...].de>
	Gurinder Shergill <gurinder.shergill@hp[...].com>
	Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara@uno[...].cz>
	Don Harrop <don@swb[...].com>
	Jürgen Heinemann <heinemann.juergen@hjc[...].de>
	Kei Ishida <ishida.kei@oss[...].jp>
	Tatsuo Ito <tito@mir[...].com>
	David S. Jackson <dsj@syl[...].net>
	Erik Jacobson <erikj@sub[...].com>	
	Jordan <ledzep37@hom[...].com>	
	Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4[...].nl>
	Jonathan Kamens <jik@kam[...].us>
	Ilya Katsnelson <ilya.katsnelson@mot[...].com>
	Mike Kobler <mkobler@gma[...].com>
	John Lau <johnlcf@gma[...].com>
	Byeong-taek Lee <btlee@psy[...].kr>
	Ivo Letzas <letzas@for[...].nu>	
	Wayne Lin <wlin@mvi[...].com>
	Neculai Macarie <macarie.neculai@nex[...].com>
	Robert Macaulay <Robert_Macaulay@Del[...].com>
	Pierre Machard <pmachard@deb[...].org>
	Jérôme Marchand <jmarchan@red[...].com>
	Alan Matsuoka <alanm@red[...].com>
	Rodney J. Mertz <rjm@elv[...].com>
	Roy Millar <100044.14@com[...].com>
	Chris Minshull <CMinshull@nyx[...].com>
	Pascal Monschein <ext.astek.monschein@snc[...].fr>
	Chris Morrow <cmorrow@ver[...].com>
	David J. Morse <David_J_Morse@Del[...].com>
	Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.[...].com>
	Muneyuki Noguchi <nogu.dev@gma[...].com>
	Giulio Orsero <giulioo@pob[...].com>
	Edouard G. Parmelan <edouard.parmelan@qua[...].fr>
	Oliver Paukstadt <oliver.paukstadt@mil[...].com>	
	Plattner(?) <Plattner.external@inf[...].com>
	Peter Portante <peter.a.portante@gma[...].com>
	Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yah[...].ar>
	ReDragon <redragon@vns[...].net>
	Amir Rapson <amir.rapson@gma[...].com>
	Paul Rivoli <paul@kbs[...].au>
	Scott Rochford <Scott_Rochford@DEL[...].com>
	Rolphin <rolphin@fre[...].fr>
	Jeroen Roovers <jer@gen[...].org>
	Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@sus[...].cz>
	Joseph E. Sacco <jsacco@ear[...].net>
	Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.[...].com>
	Eivind Sarto <ivan@kas[...].com>
	Danilo Sartori <d.sartori@res[...].it>
	Tan Shao Yi <tansy@tan[...].org>
	Yibin Shen <zituan@taobao.com>
	Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.[...].com>
	Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@red[...].com>
	Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@jus[...].net>
	Michel Simoni <m_simoni@clu[...].fr>
	Gabrielle Singleton <gelle@umi[...].edu>
	Rod Skinner <rod.skinner@int[...].com>	
	Kevin C. Smallwood <kcs@lin[...].com>
	Dick Snippe <Dick.Snippe@tec[...].nl>
	Graham Swallow <gps@tri[...].uk>
	Mike Sweger <mikesw@whi[...].net>
	Don Totten <dontotten@ibm[...].net>
	Alexander Troosh <trush@yan[...].ru>
	Stephen Tweedie <sct@red[...].com>
	Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@sus[...].cz>
	Thomas Weber <TWEBER@de.[...].com>
	Yongjun Wei <yjwei@nan[...].com>
	Stefan Wild <SWILD@de.[...].com>
	Thomas Winn <tcwinn@gma[...].com>
	Holger Wolf <Holger.Wolf@de.[...].com>
	Urban Widmark <urban@sve[...].se>
	Yu Yongcong <yuyc@cn.[...].com>
	Peter Zaitsev <pz@spy[...].ru>
	Zhen Zhang <furykerry@gma[...].com>

--	
Sebastien Godard (sysstat <at> orange.fr) is the author and the current
maintainer of this package.