determine load on a linux web server

sandeep2005 · 10-21-2005, 09:42 AM

i want to determine the load on a linux web server so that i can use that information to redirect requests to other servers when that server has reached its optimum level. can anyone help me with this. I know that /proc filesystem's loadavg,meminfo,cpuinfo gives the current stat of the system but how to use those ?has anyone done anything similar to this?

Tinkster · 10-22-2005, 02:41 PM

I'd recommend installing and running sar for a while.

As to how to use them: hard to say, load is a multi-
faceted thing. There's CPU, there's memory as a bottle
neck (which brings up swapping), there's serving diverse
pages (disk-I/O wait), ...

Cheers,
Tink