On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 18:50, David Boyes wrote: > Well, it would give you a general idea. The advantage of running an agent > inside the Linux guest is that it gives you visibility into the way the Linux > scheduler is allocating resources, in it's own terms of processes and > threads. RMFPM doesn't do a very good job of discriminating the internal > Linux structures -- no better or worse than 'top' - because it's operating > from the same bogus input. It (the agent) may give you a general sense of > what's happening, but probably not with enough precision to be really helpful > over all.
The big win of RMFPM is that Performance Toolkit/FCON can digest the records it produces. I find *that* to be pretty powerful, because in the same tool, you can get a look both at the VM system and at what each Linux guest thinks is happening. David's ver right that it's not lightweight, though, and last I tried the agent had a tendency to fall over for no apparent reason. It was *really* neat to integrate it with FCON, though. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
