checking memory and cpu consumption of procs

[Jason Dixon]

I've written a perl-based cpu check for my OpenBSD boxen.  Basically, it
connects via ssh, runs w and formats the output.  Then does a simple >=
comparison against the set values.

Anyone that's interested, let me know.

-J.

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 12:37, Dave Viner wrote:
> I'll make one for FreeBSD and Linux.  I'll post it to the list when I have
> it ready.  Unforunately, I don't really understand autoconf/automake and
> configure.in/makefile.am, so I don't know that I'll be able to help much
> there....
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> dave
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Voon, Ton [mailto:Ton.Voon at egg.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:33 AM
> To: 'Dave Viner'; Voon, Ton; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] checking memory and cpu consumption of procs
> 
> 
> A check_cpu, based on check_vsz, would be useful. However, it would require
> quite a few non-trivial changes to the configure.in and makefile.am to pick
> up various flags for the ps command to make it portable. If you want to make
> a start, I'd be happy to add in other OSes.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Dave Viner [SMTP:dviner at yahoo-inc.com]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, December 17, 2002 6:23 PM
> > To:	Voon, Ton; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject:	RE: [Nagios-users] checking memory and cpu consumption of
> > procs
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for pointing me to check_vsz.  This is a really great utility.
> > From
> > looking at the usage message and the code itself, it looks to me like this
> > monitors virtual memory consumption.  Are there any hooks to monitor %cpu
> > consumption ?  Perhaps something like
> > 	ps waxco 'vsz %cpu command'
> > ?  I'm happy to try to add this in if it sounds useful.
> >
> > dave
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Voon, Ton [mailto:Ton.Voon at egg.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:31 AM
> > To: 'Dave Viner'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] checking memory and cpu consumption of procs
> >
> >
> > Dave,
> >
> > Take a look at check_vsz for the virtual size of memory usage on a process
> > level. I've put lot of functionality patches on sourceforge, so you'll
> > need
> > to apply those.
> >
> > Ton
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:	Dave Viner [SMTP:dviner at yahoo-inc.com]
> > > Sent:	Tuesday, December 17, 2002 6:56 AM
> > > To:	nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject:	[Nagios-users] checking memory and cpu consumption of procs
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > 	I want to ensure that no process on a machine consumes more than x %
> > > of the
> > > cpu, and y MB memory.  Is there an existing plugin that handles this?  I
> > > saw
> > > that check_procs will monitor the number of processes on a machine
> > > (including ones that match a certain name), and check_load will examine
> > > the
> > > machine's overall load averages as reported by uptime.  But I can't seem
> > > to
> > > find anything that monitors cpu consumption or memory consumption.  Is
> > > there
> > > a plugin for this already?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > dave
> > >
> >
> >
> 
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