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Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Couple great tools - apachetop and iftop

If you admin a server and like to use top, check out apachetop and iftop. If you’re using Gentoo, just “emerge apachetop iftop”. Make sure you have fam running “/etc/init.d/famd start” before trying to use apachetop or you will get an error saying fam connection refused. Apachetop let’s you view realtime output of the Apache log - easier than using tail to view or writing your own scripts.

Iftop is great for seeing what the traffic is on your network interface(s). It’s much more useable than tcpdump. Use the -i to specify the interface you want to monitor.