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Re: [lvs-users] Monitoring CPU usage?

To: "LinuxVirtualServer.org users mailing list." <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [lvs-users] Monitoring CPU usage?
From: "L.S. Keijser" <leon@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:04:13 +0100
On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 10:30 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
> Robin Bowes wrote:
> 
> > I'm actually using OpenNMS, so yes, I have monitoring software in
> > place. However, it was my understanding that LVS CPU usage didn't
> > register on normal monitoring tools, ie. "top" doesn't show LVS CPU
> > usage. If I am mistaken, then please tell me as that will answer my
> > question!
> 
> LVS isn't a process, it isn't scheduled by the dispatcher.  You might as
> well be asking how much CPU your network routing and packet forwarding
> takes. 

And unless you process a lot of connections in LVS-NAT, cpu is probably
not an issue. You could however monitor on memory usage.

-- 
Léon


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