[Novalug] resource measurement of groups of programs
Derek LaHousse
dlahouss@mtu.edu
Tue Sep 2 20:28:22 EDT 2014
You want cgroups. Try systemd.
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/resources.html
On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 11:01 +1200, Mark Smith via Novalug wrote:
> postfix was just an example. perhaps all the groups make sense as
> a single user? imap, smtp, ldap, ntp, all seem to fit that bill.
> others run as root and they don't fit the user model so much.
>
> i'm sure it's entirely doable. i was just curious if anyone here
> had a handle on a package that did it to avoid me writing new stuff.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 06:55:19PM -0400, John Franklin wrote:
> > Hmm… not specifically in those terms, but you may find tools that bundle usage per user. With one of those, you can look at what the postfix user consumes.
> >
> > jf
> >
> > On Sep 2, 2014, at 5:55 PM, Mark Smith via Novalug <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
> >
> > > has anyone ever heard of a package that does resource measurement of
> > > groups of programs? for instance, postfix is made up of several programs:
> > >
> > > master
> > > qmgr
> > > anvil
> > > smtpd
> > > pickup
> > > bounce
> > > ...
> > >
> > > naturally, i can get resource usage for any one of those programs, but
> > > is there something that can group them together.
> > >
> > > i'm trying to answer questions such as:
> > >
> > > how much CPU is my mail subsystem taking up?
> > > how much IO bandwidth is my mail subsystem taking up?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Hei konā mai
> > > Mark Smith
> > > mark@winksmith.com
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