Re: monitoring load average

2003-01-12 Thread Christian Hammers
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:45:58AM +0100, Javier wrote: I think that vmstat 5 2 and getting the last line could give you a good result. BTW: I started to keep a vmstat 5 | logger -t vmstat: while true; do ps faxu|logger -t ps: ; sleep 15; done running and log the output with

Re: monitoring load average

2003-01-08 Thread Nate Campi
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 07:08:29AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:15, Javier wrote: Perhaps you can try with vmstat. It gives you the CPU idle time, so you can easily program an script that returns (100 - idle time). Use netsaint_statd plugin to return to netsaint server

monitoring load average

2003-01-07 Thread Russell Coker
I am involved with setting up NetSaint monitoring of a medium size network. One problem I have is determining suitable ways of monitoring system load. A machine with 100% usage of a resource by server processes will have request queues that grow indefinately (and performance will suck). So

RE: monitoring load average

2003-01-07 Thread Javier
: Russell Coker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: martes, 07 de enero de 2003 17:50 Para: Debian ISP CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: monitoring load average I am involved with setting up NetSaint monitoring of a medium size network. One problem I have is determining suitable ways of monitoring

Re: monitoring load average

2003-01-07 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 17:49, Russell Coker wrote: Any suggestions? Monitoring vmstat output? I feel vmstat gives you all relevant data in one place: memory, disk, cpu. Sorry, no advise on how to collect this from the network. cheers -- vbi -- this email is protected by a digital signature:

Re: monitoring load average

2003-01-07 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 8:28 pm, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder Monitoring vmstat output? I feel vmstat gives you all relevant data in one place: memory, disk, cpu. Sorry, no advise on how to collect this from the network. inetd? inetd.conf: vmstat stream tcp nowait root

Re: monitoring load average

2003-01-07 Thread
vmstat is great, but just one word of advice... I had some machines running AOLserver (damn good, but i found better and faster than him), and it had about 1024+ threads, and everything - ps, top, vmstat , which read the processes information in /proc , skewed a lot the information, because it

Re: monitoring load average

2003-01-07 Thread Corey Ralph
Sorry, no advise on how to collect this from the network. The check_by_ssh plugin works well for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: monitoring load average

2003-01-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:15, Javier wrote: Perhaps you can try with vmstat. It gives you the CPU idle time, so you can easily program an script that returns (100 - idle time). Use netsaint_statd plugin to return to netsaint server what your script returns. Thanks for the suggestion. However I

RE: monitoring load average

2003-01-07 Thread Javier
; 'Debian ISP' Asunto: Re: monitoring load average On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:15, Javier wrote: Perhaps you can try with vmstat. It gives you the CPU idle time, so you can easily program an script that returns (100 - idle time). Use netsaint_statd plugin to return to netsaint server what your script