From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 22 19:47:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from paradox.nexuslabs.com (cc718001-a.vron1.nj.home.com [24.11.70.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 169971501D; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 19:47:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cyouse@paradox.nexuslabs.com) Received: from localhost (cyouse@localhost) by paradox.nexuslabs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA10132; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:45:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cyouse@paradox.nexuslabs.com) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:45:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Youse To: Gong Wei Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: 3.3 Stable Performance Monitoring In-Reply-To: <762388C091FAD01180FF00A02462137801AC5BFD@exchange.nus.edu.sg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm assuming that you've eliminated the possibility of running this under Linux emulation mode? It may be that the snmp agent diddles too closely with kernel structures to allow for this, but there are emulatable ways to perform each of the tasks listed.. Chuck On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Gong Wei wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a few 3.3 Stable production servers lying around the campus to serve > the university population. As usual, we need some means to manage/monitor > the server performance closely. > > We also have a few Solaris machines around. We've purchased a SNMP agent > from Empire Technology (www.empiretech.com) which can report various system > performance related parameters, like swap usage, system load, cpu > utilization, number of open file descriptor, number of processes, etc. > > The bad news is that their product doesn't support FreeBSD, although it does > support Linux. So we cannot use this tool to monitor the system > performance. Instead, we need something else which can do roughly the same > thing. > > Among so many parameters our immediate interests is the following: > * CPU utilization, % used in Kernel space vs % used in user space > * RAM utilization > * SWAP utilization > * Network bandwidth usage > * number of file descriptors used > > As ususal, any hints/comments are more than welcomed. Please do mail a copy > of your response to me directly. Thanks! > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message