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Performance Monitoring Tools for Linux

Issue 56

From Issue #56
December 1998

Dec 01, 1998  By David Gavin
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Mr. Gavin provides tools for systems data collection and display and discusses what information is needed and why.
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Server Management

Server Management's picture
Submitted by Server Management (not verified) on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 23:16.

When you want to do network monitoring you need a network monitoring system also known as network monitoring software or a network monitoring tool. If you are looking then try SysOrb for free. http://www.evalesco.com/

Application stats also shed light

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 14:42.

As well as Linux performance monitoring it's also useful to monitor the stuff the server is doing - whether that be Mysql, apache, tomcat, memcached, or what have you.

Having a tool that lets you monitor all this stuff in one place is a huge time saver for correlating issues and resolving performance impacts.

Time for an update

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 09:40.

There's been some progress in the last 12 years or so...for example, Zoom from RotateRight ( http://www.rotateright.com ) provides a rich GUI or CLI-based system-wide profiler for Linux. It takes callstacks with every sample and can show source and assembly code for any sampled function.

Don't forget to use collectl

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Submitted by Mark Seger (not verified) on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 07:55.

Even though this is a pretty old article it seemed that there should be a reference to collectl for completeness. http://collectl.sourceforge.net/
-mark

Web Interface

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/07/2007 - 19:40.

Hi Mr. Gavin,

Did you get a chance to complete the Perl based web interface for your scripts. If so, I will be very interested to get the sources...

BR,

Bart

Re: Performance Monitoring Tools for Linux

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 02/13/2004 - 03:00.

The sarChart.cgi script has a bug in it. It reads from the tstamp column in each table incorrectly. To calculate the time it uses substr to extract the hour and min, but the offset parameter is off by 2 in both cases. This problem is probably due to changing the length of the year from 2 to 4 digits.

Re: Performance Monitoring Tools for Linux

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 07/22/2004 - 02:00.

Bull *****..There is no bug in it..

Re: Performance Monitoring Tools for Linux

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Submitted by mrlynn (not verified) on Wed, 08/13/2003 - 02:00.

To use these utilities on a multi-cpu machine change line 40 of the sa scrip fromt:
40 /^cpu/ {
to:
/^cpu / {

Note: add a space between the "/" and the "u" in cpu.

This change won't give you information on each individual cpu - but will use the aggregates as reported in the proc pseudo file system.

Re: Performance Monitoring Tools for Linux

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Submitted by mrlynn (not verified) on Wed, 08/13/2003 - 02:00.

Description of the columns in the CPU output is incorrect:
0000 4690259 69915 661038 7937582
Column 5: seconds in idle state since last booted
Column 2: seconds in system state since last booted
Column 3: seconds in nice state since last booted
Column 4: seconds in user state since last booted
Column 1: time-stamp of observation (HHMM)

call me picky.

picky too

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 12/01/2005 - 10:21.

Call me picky but the unit of measure is 1/100 of a second

picky

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 08/29/2005 - 13:29.

picky

Wow... 2+ years and you

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 11/13/2005 - 12:14.

Wow... 2+ years and you decide to respond with "picky"..?

How about "you're right -- good catch". Or better yet, don't respond.

Am I contradicting myself by responding to you? No. You took a perfectly acceptable observation and decided to respond with an opinion. I'm taking your opinion and responding with an observation.

Query regarding running the above scripts

Surender's picture
Submitted by Surender (not verified) on Thu, 11/09/2006 - 00:55.

Hello,

Iam Surender, Iam a naive user. I have downloaded the above scripts for cpu utilisation, disk usage etc but I dont know how to execute the same. Somebody please help me out in this regard.

My email address: surenuder@gmail.com

Thanks,
Surender

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