Michael Tiernan wrote: > First off, to everyone in this discussion, thank you for actually > explaining things, it's very helpful to learn *why* certain things are > done. > > >> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 21:37:01 -0400 >> From: Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Swap sizing in Linux HPC cluster nodes. >> > > >> If you see the number of buffers has gone to zero >> > [...] > >> Take a bunch of samples on live systems. >> > > If someone was to do samplings like this, what tools would you > suggest? I am sure the usual tools, top, free, sar, etc. are useful > but I'm just wondering if there's anything else that you prefer when > doing this sort of data collection. > > "sar -r" would be my vote. sar has the advantage of giving historical information. The other tools only give point information, so you'd have to pipe the information to a file and in the end reinvent the sar wheel.
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