SUMMARY:System performance

From: <bryan.mills_at_lynx.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 17:21:35 +0100

Yesterday I asked about monitoring system performance. Thanks to all who responded.

There are various unix commands which can be used, namely,

vmstat
iostat
netstat
swapon
uptime
sys_check

Then there are the packages available,

BMC Patrol
Monitor
Collect http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/collect
Pawz http://www.compaq.com/services/management/ms_capacity.html
BigBrother http://bb4.com with the larrd extension http://www.deadcat.net



Of the packages suggested I'm going to have a go with collect first as that one seems to be the most popular.


<quote>
We have various Alpha servers ranging from a Digital 1200 through a Compaq DS20, an ES40 and a GS60. All use Tru64 4.0F. We have a pot of money available in next years budget to upgrade some or all of the servers, but I don't know how to figure out which machines need which upgrades. I know that certain applications are disk dependant, and others are memory dependant, but I need to quantify figures. What I need is a way to measure performance of the major potential bottlenecks, namely CPU, Memory, Disk I/O and network thru-put. If anyone has some useful commands / scripts that I can use to monitor each I'd be most grateful.
</quote>

Bryan Mills - Technical Analyst

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