Fedora or Redhat Server Tips

Tune Memory Usage Run this command:

ps -eo pid,ppid,rss,vsize,pcpu,pmem,cmd -ww --sort=pid

There are two elements that are useful when determining the per process memory usage. They are:

  • RSS
  • VSIZE

A graph of RSS per unit time will show how much RAM the process is using over time.

Monitoring Servers

RedHat / CentOS Install and Configure Cacti Network Graphing Tool

Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool, it stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain Graphs, Data Sources, and Round Robin Archives in a database, cacti handles the data gathering. There is also SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG.

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