[svlug] Protecting and recovering from high system load?

[Raj Shekhar]

in infinite wisdom DzM spoke thus  On 08/29/2006 01:57 AM:

> So - the question - Is there a way to configure the kernel (or set up a 
> daemon, or something) that will monitor for explosive system load and 
> then take corrective action (even if that corrective action is as brute 
> force as forcing the kernel to bounce the system)?

Autofixes are bad - they are band aids that make you lazy and ignore the 
underlying problem.

Are you using sar to monitor your system activity? It is a part of the 
sysstat package on debian.

The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging 
activity, process-related activities, interrupts,  network activity, 
memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities 
and TTY statistics, among  others .

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