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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. Re:Historic.. by Monster+Zero · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Ganglia Distributed Monitoring System is a nice tool for monitoring lots of systems, I use it to keep an eye on 66 servers. My current template has plots for Current Cluster CPU/MEM/Beowulf Queue, Cabinet Temperature, Free Disk Space for both RAID units, then shows the utilization of each of the 64 nodes. Its fairly customizable and works great. Shows hour/day/week/month/year plots selected by a drop down menu.

    It uses RRDTool to create the plots - very nice.

  2. Re:Historic.. by sydb · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is there anything Free around to give per-process historical information a la BMC Patrol ("Draw me a graph of memory utilisation over the last 4 hours for PID 3325, and show me how much of it was in real memory and how much was in swap"). OK the graph is a nice to have, the data would suffice.

    Yeah, while true; do; ps -Fp3325 >> data.txt;sleep 1;done but I'm looking for something... Enterprise... I hate that word.

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