On 12/4/2011 10:29 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
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.
Collectd might be interesting to you. It can collect all of these and
write them out to rrd files. The frontend cgi script is a little lame,
but you can try some of the other frontends. The emerge flags are ...
extensive.
http://collectd.org/
kashani
