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From: "Stéphane Guedon" <stephane@××××××××××.eu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Advice on system monitoring
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:51:28
Message-Id: 201112050749.37769.stephane@22decembre.eu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Advice on system monitoring by Michael Mol
1 On Monday 05 December 2011 07:29:34 Michael Mol wrote:
2 > I haven't yet needed to do this kind of system monitoring, so I'm very
3 > much a newbie here.
4 >
5 > Let's start with that dual-xeon box I was using to benchmark "emerge
6 > -e @world", figure I'm looking for how better to tune my MAKEOPTS and
7 > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS variables, and assume I'd like to get more
8 > information about the following factors:
9 >
10 > * What was the 1m, 5m 15m load averages?
11 > * What were the similar averages for CPU spent in user time, system
12 > time and I/O wait?
13 > * What was network usage like? (I have a caching proxy server on the
14 > network, so even if distfiles are lost on-system, well, a cache hit
15 > transfers at up to around 50MB/s. It'd be better, except for read
16 > performance limitations on the router box, and write performance
17 > limitations on the local machine)
18 > * What was the temperature of each CPU core, RAM module and hard
19 > drive? (Not so relevant for improving system performance, but still of
20 > interest.)
21 >
22 > I'd like to have a web interface I could navigate to which would show
23 > graphs of these counters.
24
25 There are many web interface for that. You should look at munin, rrdtool,
26 nagios, this kind of stuff.
27 I have set my own.
28 Have a look there : https://www.22decembre.eu/status/ (I have setup my own
29 certificate authority for ssl).
30 If you need help, don't hesitate to contact me ! But you may find also better
31 help around !
32
33 See you...
34
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36 Stéphane Guedon
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