Kiran's Blog » Performance http://kiranp.com/blog Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:27:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 How To – monitor system performance on Ubuntu with sysstat http://kiranp.com/blog/2009/05/11/how-to-monitor-system-performance-on-ubuntu-with-sysstat/ http://kiranp.com/blog/2009/05/11/how-to-monitor-system-performance-on-ubuntu-with-sysstat/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 23:52:05 +0000 admin http://kiranp.com/blog/?p=61 1. Install SysStat
apt-get install sysstat

2. Enable Stat collection
Open vi /etc/default/sysstat
Edit the file, change “ENABLED” to “true”.

3. Start Sysstat
/etc/init.d/sysstat start

3.a. By default, sysstat reports activity every 10 minutes everyday.
If you’d like to change that interval, edit it here:
/etc/cron.d/sysstat

4. To look at your load averages, type in
sar -A

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