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Gather CPU utilisation or different workloads
I am trying to figure out for different workloads (CPU intensive, high DB IOPs etc), which compute series of cloud VM would be ideal. In order to do that I need to be able to get the CPU utilisation. ...
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Need to measure pairwire (ip based) bandwidth used over time when using TC
I need to measure the datarates of packets between multiple servers. I need pairwise bandwidths between the servers (if possible even the ports), not the overall datarate per interface on each server. ...
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In bash, is there a way to see how much memory .bashrc and any startup scripts are consuming?
In bash, .bashrc (and various other scripts) can load into memory at shell startup. These can be 10 lines long, but can be hundreds (if not thousands) of lines long. Each export will consume a tiny ...
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sysstat sar only collects cpu usage
I'm running into a problem when using sar to collect live system statistics. When I run a sar command such as the following, I get the right output: $ sar -r 1 -o /tmp/memory_usage Linux 4.15.0-70-...
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How to monitor read & write speed to specific device or mount point
How can I monitor the read & write speed to a specific device or mount point in Linux, for example /dev/sdc2 which is mounted to /mnt/data/? Would like to display the speed in MB/s for example and ...
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Very high kernel procces time usage in new, idle server
We've recently installed a new server, which shows very high process usage in the kernel - as seen here with htop: the cores and memory are reserved - so the usage is normal - but I've never seen ...
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Speedtest-CLI output for monitoring
So I'm pretty new to Linux and I really can't figure it how to. So I wanted to make a useful output for our monitoring Tool with speedtest-cli. We have to monitor download and upload speeds for ...
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Send sar series to grafana [closed]
sar of sysstat package produces a lot of useful information about system usage regarding various resources; My question (since after a brief query I was unable to find a useful suggestion / solution) ...
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PMU and tracepoints
I am searching for information about the mechanism of creation of tracepoints. From this topic What are Kernel PMU event-s in perf_events list? and this blog brendangregg I've got that tracepoints are ...
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What are Kernel PMU event-s in perf_events list?
Searching for what one can monitor with perf_events on Linux, I cannot find what Kernel PMU event are? Namely, with perf version 3.13.11-ckt39 the perf list shows events like: branch-instructions OR ...
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Investigating annoying short UI hangs
I just bought a new desktop machine for home (see system details below). It's supposed to be super smooth, but nevertheless I'm experiencing quite frequent UI 'stutters'. It's as in the olden days ...
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How to monitor system performance over time
I wrote the below script to determine how my system is holding up against various games. It checks all the vitals (GPU, RAM, and CPU) and then appends the data to a log file. Is this a reasonable ...
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Tracking/Monitoring Short-Lived CPU-Intensive Process on one CPU
So I've been working with this issue for some time now, and I'm having trouble finding the tools to troubleshoot this problem, which I have to imagine exist. So here's the basics of my problem: We ...
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Memory usage and space disk on Solaris 11
How can I monitor Memory Usage: 33/512MB (6%) Disk usage: 4.2/20GB (23%) CPU Load: 0.01 on a Solaris 11 System? I want to make a script to monitor my desktop resources.
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How to find out contention
I'm looking for an easy tool, to graphically show the amount of resources being used realtime. Something like htop but with disk IO, memory and network usage as well. I tried ganglia and the fact ...
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