How do I find out a server's load?

Question

I'm creating a php script that will capture certain information from the server and database at regular intervals. The server is running LAMP.

Is there a way to output the server load, or other statistics that may indicate the performance or load on the server including mysql?

Actually, I'm referring to cpu load and mysql database load. Those are what matters right? — Lyon, Aug 06 '10 at 01:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 04 '10 at 18:20

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Just try

cat /proc/loadavg

or

uptime

which printout the current load of the servers 1 min / 10 min / 15 min interval.

May be you should take a look to http://munin-monitoring.org/ or may be nagios

answered Aug 04 '10 at 18:20

khmarbaise

thank you! with your help i managed to find php function sys_getloadavg(). Do you know how I may determine the mysql database load? say...available connections vs max connection limit? thanks :) – Lyon Aug 06 '10 at 01:25

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