I haven't yet needed to do this kind of system monitoring, so I'm very much a newbie here.
Let's start with that dual-xeon box I was using to benchmark "emerge -e @world", figure I'm looking for how better to tune my MAKEOPTS and EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS variables, and assume I'd like to get more information about the following factors: * What was the 1m, 5m 15m load averages? * What were the similar averages for CPU spent in user time, system time and I/O wait? * What was network usage like? (I have a caching proxy server on the network, so even if distfiles are lost on-system, well, a cache hit transfers at up to around 50MB/s. It'd be better, except for read performance limitations on the router box, and write performance limitations on the local machine) * What was the temperature of each CPU core, RAM module and hard drive? (Not so relevant for improving system performance, but still of interest.) I'd like to have a web interface I could navigate to which would show graphs of these counters. -- :wq
