4 articles tagged "memory usage"

Nagios: System and Network Monitoring Book

The convenience and reliability that monitoring programs offer system administrators is astounding. Whether at home, commuting, or on vacation, admins can continuously monitor their networks, learning of issues long before they become catastrophes.

Nagios, the most popular open source solution for system and network monitoring, is extremely robust, but it’s also intensely complex.
How To Monitor Linux and Windows Server And Network Using Nagios
Nagios is free, open source host, service and network monitoring services. Nagios provides an extensible framework, that can monitor pretty much anything using plugins.
Linux find the memory used by a program / process using pmap command
You can find the memory used by a program (process) by looking into /proc directory or using standard command such as ps or top. However, you must calculate all memory usage by hand i.e. add Shared Memory + mapped file + total virtual memory size of the process + Resident Set Size + non-swapped physical [...]
How do I find out Linux Resource utilization to detect system bottlenecks?
Q. How can I find out Linux Resource utilization using vmstat command? How do I get information about high disk I/O and memory usage?
A. vmstat command reports information about processes, memory, paging, block IO, traps, and cpu activity. However, a real advantage of vmstat command output - is to the point and (concise) easy to [...]