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[NEW PLUGIN] ViewSystemLoad (free)

Oct 25, 2005, 5:47 AM
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[NEW PLUGIN] ViewSystemLoad (free)
Hi,

Been a while since I released a free plugin =)

This will give you a new option in Plugins > ViewSystemLoad > View Load (in the admin panel). Example output;

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System Load

1 Min Average: 0.01
5 Min Average: 0.01
15 Min Average: 0.0

Simple, yet very handy if your on a server that you'd like to check the load on, before doing CPU intensive processes (i.e building, verification, emails, etc).

NB: this will only work on servers that support the backtick system command, and `w` option (normally used in SSH/Telnet). The best way to know if you server supports this, is to give the plugin a go Smile

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Oct 25, 2005, 4:24 PM
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Re: [Andy] [NEW PLUGIN] ViewSystemLoad (free) In reply to
Nice one Andy Wink.

Works for me nicely, I'm on a shared server so the numbers are a bit higher than your example...

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1 Min Average: 1.41
5 Min Average: 1.86
15 Min Average: 2.9

It's all relative though I guess, a lot of factors can influence this.
Oct 26, 2005, 12:16 AM
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Re: [aus_dave] [NEW PLUGIN] ViewSystemLoad (free) In reply to
Hi,

Np =)

Its for people like yourself that it was designed (as you say, loads can get quite high on shared servers).

Angelic

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Oct 27, 2005, 3:28 PM
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Got it, installed it,
is this bad:

1 Min Average: 6.44
5 Min Average: 9.73
15 Min Average: 9.6

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Oct 28, 2005, 2:19 AM
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Re: [Dinky] [NEW PLUGIN] ViewSystemLoad (free) In reply to
Hi,

Yeah, that is pretty high Unsure

We normally get worried if it goes over 3.0 to 4.0 (I tend to like it at leass than 2.0 if possible, but when doing high CPU processes, its not always possible).

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Oct 28, 2005, 12:59 PM
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Re: [Andy] [NEW PLUGIN] ViewSystemLoad (free) In reply to
btw, don't use 'w' and get the data straight from the /proc/loadavg file. Also note that not all systems allow access to proc so you may not have permissions to access /proc (and same applies for running 'w', since that also accesses /proc for its info).

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Oct 28, 2005, 6:43 PM
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All righty now....
Took me a while, but finally found an errant copy of Awstats running, turned it off and am now getting:

1 Min Average: 0.19
5 Min Average: 0.77
15 Min Average: 1.1

Smile

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Oct 29, 2005, 12:34 AM
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btw, don't use 'w' and get the data straight from the /proc/loadavg file. Also note that not all systems allow access to proc so you may not have permissions to access /proc (and same applies for running 'w', since that also accesses /proc for its info).
Hi,

Yup, I knew that =) Just wanted a simple interface, as "w" was easier Angelic

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All righty now....
Took me a while, but finally found an errant copy of Awstats running, turned it off and am now getting:

1 Min Average: 0.19
5 Min Average: 0.77
15 Min Average: 1.1

Smile
heheh. .. worth installing just for those improvments Cool

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Oct 29, 2005, 12:40 AM
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Re: [Andy] [NEW PLUGIN] ViewSystemLoad (free) In reply to
If you're going to be lazy, at least uptime instead of w (or is that too long to type Tongue).

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If you're going to be lazy, at least uptime instead of w (or is that too long to type Tongue).

LOL ... nah, just happened to use `w` .. as I knew the format off by heart, so it was easy to write the regex to grab the values Tongue

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Oct 29, 2005, 1:26 AM
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If you haven't noticed, the output from w is the same as uptime (minus all the extra user login info that w has).

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Oct 29, 2005, 1:30 AM
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If you haven't noticed, the output from w is the same as uptime (minus all the extra user login info that w has).
Oi, thought I asked you not to make me look stupid? Tongue

Angelic

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