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Started by Don Rubin
Wed, 27 Mar 1996 00:00
How to determine average load?
Author: Don Rubin
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 00:00
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Is there a tool to determine average load (cpu,memory) on a system so you can tell when it time to upgrade CPU, memory etc? The system in question has a web server, pop server, as well as other daemons (no user processes). Please Email, thanks. Don rubin@setinc.com
Re: How to determine average load?
Author: Peter Verthez
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 00:00
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rubin@setinc.com (Don Rubin) writes:
: Is there a tool to determine average load (cpu,memory) on a system so you
: can tell when it time to upgrade CPU, memory etc? The system in question
: has a web server, pop server, as well as other daemons (no user processes).
: Please Email, thanks.
:
: Don
: rubin@setinc.com
:
You can try to cat some of the files in the /proc directory. If
I remember correctly there is a file in there called avgload (so you
should do then 'cat /proc/avgload'). I suppose the man pages contain
a description of it.
Hope this helps
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Peter Verthez Software Engineer
Email: at work pver@bsg.bel.alcatel.be
at home pver@innet.be
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Re: How to determine average load?
Author: TeeJay
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:00
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Peter Verthez wrote:
> You can try to cat some of the files in the /proc directory. If
> I remember correctly there is a file in there called avgload (so you
> should do then 'cat /proc/avgload'). I suppose the man pages contain
> a description of it.
cat /proc/loadavg (not "avgload" :] ) only gives you info over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. A
tool to display load in a graph is xload (--> runs under X window!).
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Re: How to determine average load?
Author: Jeff Uphoff
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 00:00
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"T" == TeeJay <teejay@Cam031102.student.utwente.nl> writes:
T> Peter Verthez wrote:
>> You can try to cat some of the files in the /proc directory. If
>> I remember correctly there is a file in there called avgload (so you
>> should do then 'cat /proc/avgload'). I suppose the man pages contain
>> a description of it.
T> cat /proc/loadavg (not "avgload" :] ) only gives you info over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. A
T> tool to display load in a graph is xload (--> runs under X window!).
There's also something called xsysinfo which shows four status bars: CPU
load, CPU idle percentage, Memory usage (broken into three shadings,
unshared, shared, and cache), and swap usage. Very handy!
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