3.3 Stable Performance Monitoring

[Gong Wei]

Hi all,

We have a few 3.3 Stable production servers lying around the campus to serve
the university population.  As usual, we need some means to manage/monitor
the server performance closely.

We also have a few Solaris machines around.  We've purchased a SNMP agent
from Empire Technology (www.empiretech.com) which can report various system
performance related parameters, like swap usage, system load, cpu
utilization, number of open file descriptor, number of processes, etc.

The bad news is that their product doesn't support FreeBSD, although it does
support Linux.  So we cannot use this tool to monitor the system
performance.  Instead, we need something else which can do roughly the same
thing.

Among so many parameters our immediate interests is the following:
*   CPU utilization, % used in Kernel space vs % used in user space
*   RAM utilization
*   SWAP utilization
*   Network bandwidth usage
*   number of file descriptors used

As ususal, any hints/comments are more than welcomed.  Please do mail a copy
of your response to me directly.  Thanks!




To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

KDM and FreeBSD 3.3

[Gong Wei]

Dear all,

My apologizes for asking a question which is not so related to the list ...

Here it goes: I have a machine recently upgraded to FreeBSD-Stable 3.3
through cvsup+make world. Some weeks later I decided to give KDE a try, by
(cd /usr/ports/x11/kde11-i18n;make install).  Everything went smoothly
except the KDM, which seems couldn't let me login.  After entering the
correct userid and password at the KDM welcome window, then for a very short
period of time the screen becomes black, very short in fact.  After that the
KDM welcome window will just reappear again.

The password checking part is fine, if I enter the wrong password, some
error message will be printed on the KDM welcome window.

I've checked the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config file.  No any error
message printed in the DisplayManager.errorLogfile (which is the standard
xdm-errors).  I also couldn't find anything in the ~/.xsession-errors file.
in fact, nothing at all in these two files.

I have a ~/.xsession file, which is a symbolic link to ~/.Xclients (mode:
0755).

The KDM was started by typing "kdm" when login as root.

Oddly enough, if I run xdm instead of kdm, everything just works fine.  I
can login successfully and whatever program specified in ~/.Xclients will be
executed, error message/output will also started filling the two error log
files (/usr/X11/./xdm-errors and ~/.xsession-errors).

I've searched the KDE mailing list, seems someone also facing the same
problem.  Too bad he said he had solve it, by looking at the two error log
file (xdm-error, ~/.xsession-error).

As ususal, any comments/hints will be much appreciated.

Thanks for your time!

Regards

Gong Wei [EMAIL PROTECTED]


To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message