Monitor Linux Performance With The Tools At Hand
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."
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 ?
This is a good summary of available performance/test tools for Linux:
Linux Test Tool Matrix