Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:49:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:49:07 -0400 Received: from 213-96-124-18.uc.nombres.ttd.es ([213.96.124.18]:25322 "HELO dardhal.mired.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:49:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:54:15 +0200 From: Jose Luis Domingo Lopez To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Very High Load, kernel 2.4.18, apache/mysql Message-ID: <20020925225415.GB4768@localhost> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1121 Lines: 28 On Tuesday, 24 September 2002, at 22:38:56 -0400, Adam Goldstein wrote: > Can anyone recommend any long term cumulative monitors for vmstat, > and/or other processes that could run behind the scenes and gather > cooperative data? Personally, I can't make heads or tails of the vmstat > output, and, I still have as of yet to get a -real- answer for what > "load" is.. besides the knee-jerk answer of "its the avg load over X > minutes". :) > apt-cache show sysstat ... Description: sar, iostat and mpstat - system performance tools for Linux The above are very well known performance monitoring tools used in the UNIX world, that can gather periodic measures of many of your system's usage parameters. Check the man pages for details :-) Hope this helps. -- Jose Luis Domingo Lopez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Woody (Linux 2.4.19-pre6aa1) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/