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Daisetsu
Asked: 2011-02-02 10:49:57 +0800 CST

Server statistics (processor usage and bandwidth usage)

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How can I find out how much of a load my webserver is under? I tried top but I don't know how to interpret the information it's showing me for CPU. While top may give me the CPU usage I also need to find out the bandwidth (load on the NIC) to see if the server is being overwhelmed or not. I tried netstat but all I could see is what the active connections are.

I don't know much about serve maintenance, I'm a programmer and my sysadmin is on jury duty. Any hints are much appreciated.

I'm running Apache on Ubuntu server, with a few small PHP scripts. The majority of the traffic is some large binary files which are being downloaded.

apache-2.2 nic

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    For processor usage install htop:

    $ sudo apt-get install htop
$ htop

    For bandwidth usage install iptaf:

    $ sudo apt-get install iptraf
$ iptraf

    But I suggest Cacti, Munin, Zabbix.

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  2. i second htop as a replacement for top. also i like bmon for live network useage checks, IIRC its in the ubuntu repros too.

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