hosted machine and load average

[Ohad Levy]

I would use collectd instead, it has a much better resolution and scales up
(which munin doesnt).

my 2cents,
Ohad

On 9/18/09, Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz> wrote:
>
>  Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>
> So my question: What do you do in case you have the same scenario?
> what steps do you take to prevent things like that from happening?
>
>    I would focus less on prevention, and more on diagnostics. I usually
> use munin (you can see a live example at http://www.hamakor.org.il/munin).
> It's great in that it gives you complete history of almost all relevant
> parameters, and you can (farily easily) add your own.
>
> As for the specific problem you are describing, assuming it repeats itself,
> it really depends. For example, if you look at the munin history and see the
> load average slowly ascending, then I would run ps and check for runaway
> zombies or processes. If the load average jumps suddenly, I would run cron
> with something that logs the top ten active processes.
>
> Shachar
>
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