All standard tools will significantly contribute to the problem, via overhead they inherently introduce into the scenario. DPMonitor has the lowest overhead - often measured at significantly less than 1% of system resources.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U2 Users Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 1:30 PM Subject: Re: Performance > > > > > If you are running Topas to monitor the system performance, only have one > instance of it open and have it update once every 5 seconds. I have heard of > situations where 5 or 6 people would have topas running at the same time > effectively bogging the server down. Topas can hog resources if not used in > moderation. > > As was mentioned, nmon is an excellent replacement for topas. Set it's > refresh/update setting at 4 seconds instead of the default of 2 seconds. > > Be careful if you are running performance gathering tools, they are a huge > performance hit. filemon is extremely resource hungry. Only run it > occasionally, not continiously. > > > > > -- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
