A program which monitors CPU usage?
> >Ok, I’ve tried some web searches and haven’t found anything I like the > >look of. What I’m after is a program which runs in the background and > >monitors (primarily) CPU usage for our web server (an Ultra-1 running > >Solaris 2.6). However, all the programs I’ve found are about 2 years > >old and/or don’t run on 2.6. > > > >I’ve seen top, but it doesn’t really do what I want; I’d like to have > >the output from the program as a %cpu usage for each hour (or some > >other arbitrary time period) stored as a log file or, ideally, as a > >graph (in some graphics format, eg, .gif). > > Sounds like what sar does, and it comes with 2.6 – to enable recording > data for it, just uncomment the lines in /etc/init.d/perf and the > crontab for the ‘sys’ account. From what I’ve read on the product, sounds like ‘spong’ might be what you need. I’ve downloaded it, but haven’t had time to install and set up yet. Try: http://strobe.weeg.uiowa.
