Introduction

This summer, I had the good fortune to spend several months working at the University of Michigan. One of the tasks assigned to me was devising a method for data collection over time for certain types of data. In particular, we were looking to collect information from /proc/meminfo and out of our lm_sensors output.

The issue that we came across with logging these sets of data was that they were set up for one-time viewing. That is, they looked similar to the following: (continue reading...)