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#10 Sysstat Part 2: mpstat & sar

In the second part of our introduction to the Sysstat utilities, we'll look at Mpstat and Sar.

Mpstat is a great little utility to view information about our CPU or CPUs/Cores.

Sar is an extremely versatile utilities that, when paired with the sadc daemon, provides extensive system logging and realtime monitoring.

Uploaded on Nov 06, 2009 | 7:44 | Tags: Load Testing mpstat sar sysstat

#9 Sysstat Part 1: vmstat & iostat

Sysstat provides some smaller utilities that can be used to monitor performance and troubleshoot an under preforming Linux/Unix based system.

In this episode we'll get introduced to two of those utilities - vmstat and iostat and how they can help us keep things running at peak performance.

Next week we'll look at two more utilities that are part of Sysstat - mpstat and sar.

Uploaded on Oct 30, 2009 | 5:54 | Tags: iostat Load Testing sysstat vmstat