Charting server load

[S. Krishnan]

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 17:09 +0300, Kihara Muriithi wrote:
> On 02/02/07, Kevin Cozens <kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>         William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>         > Is there an easy, lightweight way to chart the loads on a
>         server?  I am
>         > one of many on a shared host that is obviously overloaded,
>         and I want to
>         > see if I can get the provider to acknowledge that the
>         machine needs 
>         > upgrading or dividing.
>         >
> Yes, and a good tool for that is cacti. If your hosting guys are
> running SNMP agent, this would be the best solution IMHO as it can
> graph both the system and the service load over time. Cacti should run
> on a remote host to avoid slowing your hosting box.
>  The cool thing about cacti is you will just need to point your
> provider to the cacti graphs. 
> William
>  

One way is to use sar (http://perso.orange.fr/sebastien.godard/) with
kSar (http://ksar.atomique.net/) for graphs.  


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