Monitoring & performance question

[gboyce at badbelly.com (gboyce at badbelly.com)]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Dava Peters wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a redhat 9 server with Pentium 4, 512MB memory
> and 120 GB Harddrive. 
> Sometimes I have performance problems. I use rup, top,
> vmstat, mpstat and iostat, but could not figure out.
> Can anyone give me insight how I can monitor better
> performance or any other useful command?

Dava,

What sort of performance problems?  Is some particular action slow, or is 
it a general sluggish feeling while in X?

If you're using Gnome (and possibly KDE), it can seem a bit sluggish if 
the hostname defined on your machine does not resolve.  You can solve this 
by either setting your hostname to localhost, or adding your hostname into 
/etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1 (or your static IP if you have one).

If it's not a general X feeling slow issue, provide a bit of details, and 
we might be able to provide a better awnser.

--
Greg