[hobbit] TOP & Memory Test

[Asif Iqbal]

On 1/24/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:09:55PM -0600, James Wade wrote:
> > When you look at the cpu test, it shows top output
> > for the processes taking up the most cpu.
> >
> > Can the same be done for the Memory Test, but
> > showing top information of the processes taking
> > up the most memory?
>
> I think it's a great idea. It would take some coding in the memory
> handling module, but the hobbit clients do report enough data from most
> Unix systems that it should be possible to parse out the memory
> utilisation and generate a listing like the "top" display on the cpu
> column.
>
> A quick grep on the hobbitclient-*.sh scripts indicate that we do get
> the "%memory" used from AIX, Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD and
> SunOS/Solaris, but not from HP-UX, Irix, OSF/1 and SCO.
>
> When we have this info, we should also make it possible to trigger
> alerts for processes that gobble up too much memory, or too much CPU
> time. So I would probably use this as an opportunity to actually grab
> some more info from the "ps" listing than what we do today, and hook up
> a couple of new threshold settings for it. I've already had requests for
> this type of alerting.
>
> Tracking CPU/Memory utilisation by process in a graph would probably
> also be interesting in some cases (eg to see when processes are leaking
> memory).

That would be awesome. Almost all our systems are solaris and if there
is a quick patch for solaris 7 to solaris 10 for sparc and x86 I would
implement it right away

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> Henrik
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