May 9, 2008 · General, Monitoring · 9 comments


Date: October 2001
Place: Meerut
Problem: Desktop hanging again and again after 5 mins from boot up
Details: Cyrix Machine, running Windows ME
Follow-Up: Complete breakdown
Post-Mortem: CPU fan malfunctioned. Complete burnout of the CPU.
Cost: Whoops!!!

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March 4, 2008 · General, Monitoring, Server · 1 comment

Dstat is a versatile replacement for vmstat, iostat, netstat, nfsstat and ifstat. Dstat overcomes some of their limitations and adds some extra features, more counters and flexibility. Dstat is handy for monitoring systems during performance tuning tests, benchmarks or troubleshooting.

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February 20, 2008 · Monitoring, Networking · (No comments)

Traffic monitor applet for GNOME.Netspeed is an applet that shows how much traffic occurs on a specified network device (ethernet card, wireless LAN card, or dial-up).

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February 6, 2008 · Monitoring, Server · (No comments)

mytop is a console-based (non-gui) tool for monitoring the threads and overall performance of a MySQL 3.22.x, 3.23.x, and 4.x server. It runs on most Unix systems (including Mac OS X) which have Perl, DBI, and Term::ReadKey installed. And with Term::ANSIColor installed you even get color. If you install Time::HiRes, you'll get good real-time queries/second stats.

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February 2, 2008 · Monitoring, Networking · 7 comments

Lanmap Listens to all available traffic on the interface of your choice, figures out who's talking to who, how much, using which protocols.

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