[wplug] How much performance increase with more memory?

John Strange john at strangeness.org
Thu May 29 13:58:59 EDT 2003


Hehe..

rrdtool is such a huge complex beast in itself..  I do believe someone
has written a frontend for it though, if you check freshmeat it might
save you a lot of time.

- John

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 17:14, James O'Kane wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Tim Lesher wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 12:52:30PM -0400, John Strange wrote:
> > > man vmstat :)
> > 
> > Yep, or free(1).  As usual in Linux, There's More Than One Way To Do
> > It (tm). :-)  I usually gravitate towards /proc/<whatever> just out of
> > habit.
> > 
> 
> or sar(1) from sysstat package. It was added to Red Hat a few versions 
> ago, and takes 5 minute samples and keeps them for about a week. Much less 
> guesswork when you can see a weeklong trend.
> 
> It's on my longterm project list at work to gather such stats so we can 
> decide if we have enough compute servers, for example. If I don't find 
> something prepackaged, I'll probably use rrdtool to graph the data in 
> manager-friendly format.
> 
> -james
> 
> 
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