Sunday, July 5, 2009

Using atop to view load at system and process level

Atop is a interactive monitor to view load at system and process level. With the use of atopsar, administrators can generate system reports for intervals period.

$ atopsar -c 60 5
(A report is generated on CPU Utilisation every 60 seconds for 5 min)

One of the most interesting feature is the ability to provide disk, network activity among other things.

The atop project website is comprehensive in explaining the usage and advantages

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