Herding Penguins with Performance Co-Pilot

6/03/00


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Table of Contents

Herding Penguins with Performance Co-Pilot

Overview

System-level performance management Issues

Useful performance data

Performance Co-Pilot

PCP architecture

PMAPI features

PCP collector architecture

Collector plug-in API features

Open source PCP components

vmstat across the cluster

pmchart example

3-D visualization of application performance

Automated performance monitoring

Example pmie rules

Monitoring and managing quality of service

Measuring end-user quality of service

Performance data from an application with libpcp_trace

Summary

Author: Ken McDonell

Email: kenmcd@sgi.com