Re: Should DBA have access to sar and top?

From: bennies <test_at_test.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:33:32 +0200
Message-ID: <40686b57$0$41761$5fc3050@dreader2.news.tiscali.nl>

Bass Chorng wrote:

> We have similar "rules" to discourage DBAs using top, especially
> when there is a high load. But I can't understand why sar. Did
> they ever explain that ?
>
> You can use "top -b" to get a snapshot of top. This will not use
> a lot of CPU cycles like the continuous mode. Usually I find that
> good enough for performance tuning purposes.
>
> Your sys adms need to learn how to trust DBAs.
>
> Regards.

Does top really take that much cpu cycles ? On our systems top normally doesn't show up on top unless everything else is shutdown. I never even imagined this would take up much resources. Pitty our unix team never said anything about it. Received on Mon Mar 29 2004 - 12:33:32 CST