[ale] System Load Summary Script?

[Beddingfield, Allen]

Shhh...  don't give anyone ideas for literally replacing us with shell 
scripts! Hehe

Allen B.

On 6/26/19 12:58 PM, Todor Fassl via Ale wrote:
> Right, but that is my point. If I run uptime and I see the load on a 
> system is high, I still have to manually figure out if it is cpu bound, 
> memory bound, or disk IO bound, or network IO bound. If you google for 
> tutorials on diagnosing load problems, they all say something like 
> "First run top and look at column 10. Then run iotop and look at column 
> 23. Then run netstat and ..." I don't think I should have to do that in 
> 2019.
> 
> Surely by now someone has written something to just take a good guess, 
> right? I mean, I could write it myself in perl. Parse the output from 
> top. Then parse the output from iotop. Etcetra. But surely someone  it, 
> has already written that script, right?
> 
> On 6/26/19 12:35 PM, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
>> +1 for htop
>>
>> It all depends on what you mean by "load".  In UNIX days load averages 
>> in top and other tools were only for the CPU.   In Linux that isn't 
>> the case.  Coincidentally I'd just been in another thread mentioning 
>> that when someone shared this discussion of why that is different in 
>> Linux:
>>
>> http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-averages.html
>>
>> As far as monitoring goes you could use something like Nagios and the 
>> plugins it provides (or just the plugins and make your own routine to 
>> run the plugin and email you the output).
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> On Behalf Of Beddingfield, Allen via Ale
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 1:26 PM
>> To: ale at ale.org
>> Subject: Re: [ale] System Load Summary Script?
>>
>> When troubleshooting that type of issue, "htop" is always my 
>> first-glance sanity check.
>>
>> Allen B.
>>
>> On 6/26/19 12:21 PM, Todor Fassl via Ale wrote:
>>> Anybody know of a debian/ubuntu package that provides a simple system
>>> load summary? Maybe you are familiar with mysqltuner. I am looking for
>>> something like that for system loads. Every time I have a problem with
>>> a system under high load, I have go google for tutorials on diagnosing
>>> load problems. Top, iostat, iotop, sar, etc. I'd like something that
>>> did each of the things these tools do individually and take a best
>>> guess at what is wrong.
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Allen Beddingfield
>> Systems Engineer
>> Office of Information Technology
>> The University of Alabama
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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
Office of Information Technology
The University of Alabama
Office 205-348-2251
allen at ua.edu