Tadeusz Pietraszek

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Monitoring resource usage in Linux

Three packages I found in Debian: dstat, ifstat, systat - allow to show cumulative statistics, but not on per-process basis.

Here’s an interesting discussion on what can an cannot be done with Linux: http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/01-2005/13574.html

One pointer is laptop-mode (Documentation/laptop-mode), although for different reasons the information there might not be accurate.

A nice summary on linux profiling: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mucci/latest/pubs/LCSC2004.pdf

Perfsuite: http://perfsuite.sourceforge.net/ IOTrack: http://www.pdc.kth.se/~pek/iotrack/

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 14th, 2005 at 5:10 pm and is filed under Hacking, New Ideas, Personal, Tips&Tricks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Monitoring resource usage in Linux”

  1. T0aD Says:
    March 27th, 2008 at 11:49 am

    Did you ever heard of hypertext links people can just click to go to different pages on the internet ? :)

  2. tadekp Says:
    March 27th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

    Sorry… they must have vanished while converting to markdown.

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