[ale] System Load Summary Script?

[Jim Kinney]

Yeah. It's called "sysadmin" and we keep deleting it :-)

On Wed, 2019-06-26 at 12:58 -0500, 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 AleSent: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 1:26
> > PMTo: 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
> > > systemload summary? Maybe you are familiar with mysqltuner. I am
> > > looking forsomething like that for system loads. Every time I
> > > have a problem witha system under high load, I have go google for
> > > tutorials on diagnosingload problems. Top, iostat, iotop, sar,
> > > etc. I'd like something thatdid each of the things these tools do
> > > individually and take a bestguess at what is wrong.
> > 
> > --Allen BeddingfieldSystems EngineerOffice of Information
> > TechnologyThe University of AlabamaOffice 205-348-2251allen at ua.edu
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