[NTLUG:Discuss] Utility to monitor performance of Linux server
Thomas Cameron
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Thu Feb 28 21:56:07 CST 2008
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 12:01 -0600, Chris Cox wrote:
> Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> > I remember being referred to a linux utility that allowed me to log the
> > various utilization statistics of a machine. It wasn't tload or top,
> > but some other utility with some name that (obviously) didn't lend
> > itself to being remembered. I remember having to run the program in a
> > loop - outputting the results to a file so that I could gather
> > statistics over time...like % of time the processor was waiting on the
> > disk to flush, % of time the disk was active....etc...
> >
> > Does anyone know what utility that was? I've 'whatis'ed in [/|/usr/]
> > [bin|sbin] but can't seem to locate it.
> >
>
> What comes to mind is the sysstat package which has sar and iostat.
Also vmstat, which is very useful in watching what the kernel is doing.
--
Thomas
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