Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E9CF632C74 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:46:27 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23222-03 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:46:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com (mail-wy0-f174.google.com [74.125.82.174]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3898632277 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:46:19 -0300 (ADT) Received: by wyb33 with SMTP id 33so202841wyb.19 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:46:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lYo/VARyPzLhMKQjnRV3gOZTUWJEqhaIn1MG1kJByyg=; b=NCfZaLXzo21AT1pVW/H2/dSZ8wecxql9O3HXOAIOp/VoUJKLKLfxdh2eR1agco6Pl4 oiDCS5FqPF7mBCSlv7yk+ZaNHummmG7M/iliwlvXs/n14Fg/A+4NRVYQK3e8F4zVqtyo tY6nFl0edrJ6Hsu/suvI/zaXsM2ikeQt+Dm6Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=W4cW9NdZZJJHUWUdkPAD6g310b4wOa8skGYD8xWAKdoLc0cbRvf6gXQ2I48Dajyzj4 J4HI7agM13JpBrKJoO0uD65J4BkSHGBvU/zChFv7Nd9eUUvA9eXq97HvMSiWWfYIp32a Kahm9kANVUO6JjwonKf+bJE4ynO86JEHYVQ7M= Received: by 10.227.129.21 with SMTP id m21mr245660wbs.96.1276818374346; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:46:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Tom-Wilcoxs-MacBook.local ([92.9.60.199]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n31sm39467515wba.9.2010.06.17.16.46.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:46:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C1AB3C3.9090606@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:46:11 +0100 From: Tom Wilcox User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Smith CC: Robert Haas , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: requested shared memory size overflows size_t References: <584872.74177.qm@web39702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4C167A8D.1060002@gmail.com> <4C16B97F.4080201@gmail.com> <4C1A96A2.2050607@2ndquadrant.com> In-Reply-To: <4C1A96A2.2050607@2ndquadrant.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201006/323 X-Sequence-Number: 39179 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