topic Re: hotfiles on a Mandrake in Operating System - Linux

hotfiles on a Mandrake

labadie_1 — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 07:41:44 GMT

Hello

I have installed Mandrake 9.1 on an Armada M 700.
How do I find the hotfiles (files with most of the I/O), the top cpu processes ?

regards

gerard

Re: hotfiles on a Mandrake

Huc_1 — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 07:45:14 GMT

From an xterm you can use command top

#top
#vmstat
#iostat
#sar -a

all of theses have man page, like man iostat or man sar

Hope this helps

J-P

Re: hotfiles on a Mandrake

Mark Grant — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 07:46:18 GMT

Nice simple one for simple stats is

"top"

but other tools exist which are not particularly pretty but give you loads of information.

"vmstat 1 1" and "sar" are particularly good but I would suggest you lÃ¸ook at the man pages fro a complete description as they do quite a lot of stu

Re: hotfiles on a Mandrake

Huc_1 — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 07:51:44 GMT

There is also lsof that is very usefull this will show lots of info on file currently use and in unix "everthing" is a file

Dont know where this would be on mandrake but in most case this is at
/usr/sbin/lsof

ex: lsof -i

will show you all active internet connections

man lsof is also full of infos

J-P

Re: hotfiles on a Mandrake

Martin P.J. Zinser — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:17:25 GMT

Hello Gerard,

also poke around in the goodies that come with your desktop environment (KDE or Gnome). There are a number of widgets that provide functionality similar to perf_meter that you might be familiar with from OpenVMS ;-)

Greetings, Martin

Re: hotfiles on a Mandrake

labadie_1 — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:14:16 GMT

Thanks to all.

Martin, I use Kde.

regards

Gerard

Re: hotfiles on a Mandrake

Martin P.J. Zinser — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 21:51:22 GMT

Hello Gerard,

I do have a "System" entry in my KDE start
menue with all kinds of System tools for
online monitoring. KDE system guard is quite nifty.

Main disadvantge is that they are AFAIK "on-line", i.e. you can not collect historical data for later comparison with them. For that I think really sar is your best bet.

Greetings, Martin