System administrators familiar with the Linux operating system
use the tools in the 'procps' toolset all the time. Tools which
read from /proc include top, iostat, vmstat, sar and others. The
files in /proc contain useful information about the performance
of the system. Most of the files are documented in the Linux kernel documentation. You can also check
man 5 proc.
Most performance monitoring tools invoke other tools like iostat
to collect performance information instead of reading from the
/proc filesytem itself. This begs the question, what can you do
if you don't have access to those tools? Perhaps you are using a
hosted Linux database and have no access to the underlying shell
to execute tools like iostat or top? How could you gather
information about the performance of the actual system without
being allowed to run the tools?
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