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Entries from June 16th, 2009

Cacti and MySQL counters problem

June 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Cacti, monitoring, MySQL

We recently came across a problem with Cacti and the MySQL counters. For those of you who don’t know how to integrate MySQL statistics into Cacti have a look at this: http://code.google.com/p/mysql-cacti-templates/. These templates are a great way to gain some insight into how your MySQL database servers perform. The templates are actually PHP pages [...]

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Tracing memory leaks with pidstat

June 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Performance, sysadmin

Finding application memory leaks is important part of keeping systems stable and often very hard to track down. Monitoring application memory consumption can be performed in a few different ways, the easiest is a simple capture of ps and append to log file triggered via cron at desired interval. In this example we will track [...]

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