Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:48:26 -0500
From: Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu>
To: Tom Wilcox <hungrytom@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: requested shared memory size overflows size_t
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On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:46:11AM +0100, Tom Wilcox wrote:
> On 17/06/2010 22:41, Greg Smith wrote:
>> Tom Wilcox wrote:
>>> Any suggestions for good monitoring software for linux?
>>
>> By monitoring, do you mean for alerting purposes or for graphing purposes? 
>>  Nagios is the only reasonable choice for the former, while doing at best 
>> a mediocre job at the latter.  For the later, I've found that Munin does a 
>> good job of monitoring Linux and PostgreSQL in its out of the box 
>> configuration, in terms of providing useful activity graphs.  And you can 
>> get it to play nice with Nagios.
>>
> Thanks Greg. Ill check Munin and Nagios out. It is very much for graphing 
> purposes. I would like to be able to perform objective, 
> platform-independent style performance comparisons.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
Zabbix-1.8+ is also worth taking a look at and it can run off our
favorite database. It allows for some very flexible monitoring and
trending data collection.

Regards,
Ken