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Monitor Linux Performance With The Tools At Hand

Posted by timothy on from the i-t-b-w-t-c-l dept.

Jan Stafford writes "Need to monitor Linux performance without purchasing a pricey diagnostic package? Try these simple, built-in command line tools. This article was written by site expert and author (Rapid Application Development with Mozilla) Nigel McFarlane."

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  1. Historic.. by noselasd · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most utilities mentioned are really great, but mostly realtime stats
    sometimes it's nice to see historic view on the machine as well.
    sysstat does just that.
    Now if only I can remember the thing that also use that statistics do
    draw graphs (with gnuplot iirc.) Anyone ?

  2. Re:Remote realtime monitoring? by ajayrockrock · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use gkrellm2 (www.gkrellm.net) to monitor a handful of machines. It has a ton of stats that you can use and it's very helpful...

    --Ajay

  3. Test Tools by frobisch · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is a good summary of available performance/test tools for Linux:
    Linux Test Tool Matrix