CentOS 4 with MySQL 4.1

[tengel at fluid.com (Troy Engel)]

Greg Knaddison wrote:
> 
> As you said, it would be worthwhile to capture the output of top.  I
> like to use
> 
> # date >> /tmp/topper.txt; top -b -n 1 >> /tmp/topper.txt 

Also install 'sysstat' (comes prepackaged with all modern 
RedHat/CentOS), which is a rewrite of the venerable sa* tools from 
Solaris for linux - namely, 'sar', 'iostat', 'mpstat' and their 
collection agents. Reviewing historical sar output can find a lot of 
trends and help find the problem.

-te

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