[X-Unix] Processor/process Context Switching

[Alexandre Gauthier]

gurple wrote:

> Does anyone know of included tools that will monitor the processor/
> process context switching on OS X? I was expecting to find sar (a 
> typical UNIX monitoring tool like top) able to do it but it seems not 
> to be as sophisticated as what's on other more industrial UNIX 
> systems. Perhaps there's a tool in the DevTools collection? It would 
> be best if there is a command line based tool. Any thoughts?
>
Well, I doubt I have installed it manually, but apparently /usr/bin/sar
is present on my OS X 10.4 Powerbook.

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