Using TOP to monitor server resource usage

[regic]

... monitoring resource usage is an important task. By doing this, we can locate system bottleneck, planning what to do to optimize our system, identifying memory leak and so on. The problem is, which software one should use and how to use it according to our need.

Among many monitoring tools that available, most people use "top" (a part of procps package). Top provide almost everything we need to monitor our system's resource usage within single shot. In this article, all the information are based on procps 3.2.5 running on top of Linux kernel 2.6.x

A. Interactive or batch mode?...
B. How to monitor certain processes only?...
C. Fast or slow update?...
D. Fields that we need...
E. Multi view are better than one?...
F. "How come there is only so few free memory on my Linux PC?"...
G. Working with many saved configurations...

full article: http://www.linuxforums.org/misc/using_to...ently.html

[rose]

During the day I'm constantly using Top.