[CentOS] cpu load monitoring

Fri Jan 23 01:26:26 UTC 2009
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Dave Stevens wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a server running Centos 5.2 and am implementing a GIS mapserver app. I 
> have some sample logs from another implementation that give me an idea of 
> bandwidth requirements but I would like to check the cpu load. I can not be 
> at the server during the test and am interested in knowing if there is 
> logging of cpu load available. Anyone have experience with this? 
> Recommendations?

If you have the sysstat package installed, sar will show samples from 10 
minute intervals.

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   Les Mikesell
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