On 12/22/06, Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd like to recommend gkrellm as the *best* way to understand a Linux system's workload. It continuously plots the last 60 seconds' utilization of CPU (per-CPU and/or aggregate), disk (per-disk,
Gkrellm is indeed a good tool if you're actively profiling and/or you have it running on a machine you are constantly sitting near. I used to use it all the time. I've found it more effective in the long term though to figure out what you consider to be "bad" thresholds and have one of the various monitoring tools watch those thresholds locally and then raise the alarm via email, sms, whatever when those thresholds are hit. That way you don't have the polling traffic (which can be substantial if you have a lot of machines and/or datapoints to watch) and you get an alert when something goes sideways, even if it happens while you're away from your desk and corrects itself before you get back. -- -Regards- -Quentin Hartman- _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
