Re: system load

[Simon Cozens <simon@example.com>]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:04:08PM +0900, Viktor Pavlenko wrote:
> Are demanding what? Memory, CPU or both?..

CPU.

> Actually, I've been looking for a standard monitoring tool to watch
> the system behavior during load tests. I use top but it's rather
> tiresome. We had a situation when an Oracle process went frantic and
> started consuming up to 94% of CPU but normal amount of memory.

gkrellm?
 
> If xload shows only memory usage, it won't show high CPU load...
 
Quite the opposite, in fact.

> Also, I should say that it's HPUX, and I'm sure they won't allow me to
> install a nice free monitoring program there...
 
Ah. There's always Perl. :) See the CPAN module Proc::ProcessTable.

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