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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook

by William Leemans
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
4h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Monitoring RAM performance

To monitor RAM performance, I am only interested in a couple of metrics, not all the memory-related ones. Take a look at this list:

  • mem.util.used
  • mem.util.free
  • mem.util.bufmem
  • mem.util.cached
  • swap.free
  • swap.used
  • swap.pagesin
  • swap.pagesout

How to do it…

This recipe will explain you how to create text-based and graphical outputs:

  1. First, display live data for the preceding metrics through this command:
    ~]# pmdumptext -H -t 1 -i -l mem.util.used mem.util.free mem.util.bufmem mem.util.cached swap.free swap.used swap.pagesin swap.pagesout -h guest.example.com
    
    How to do it…
  2. Create a configuration file for pmchart to display live data called memory.conf ...
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