Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!cluster!metro!bunyip!moondance!uqcspe!qfagus!anvil!mob From: mob@anvil.oz (Michael O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Monitor by Anvil Designs Keywords: monitor anvil Message-ID: <1042@anvil.oz> Date: 6 Feb 90 06:53:46 GMT References: <826@rupert.mdavcr.UUCP> Organization: Anvil Designs Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Australia Lines: 69 dougf@mdavcr.UUCP (Douglas Floer) writes: >In the Dec 11 issue of UNIX Today, Page 8, Anvil Designs of Santa Clara >advertises a product called "Monitor" that sounds suspiciously like the >monitor posting to this newsgroup of about 6 months ago. Anyone have any >background on it? >Doug Floer, MDA, Richmond, BC, Canada ..!uunet!van-bc!mdavcr!dougf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- In August 1989, Anvil Designs Pty. Ltd. released Monitor a Unix performance and tuning software package. This package is not to be confused with a piece of "netware" by the same name that was released onto the net about the same time. That monitor package was like a visual ps command and its focus was to visually give per-process feedback. MONITOR by Anvil Designs Pty. Ltd. is quite different in approach. MONITOR gives complete performance data about the whole system. All data is presented graphically with bar graphs and charts. MONITOR goes far beyond the Unix sar or ps command. Major subsystems within unix are examined. Disk fragmentation, disk activity, and per filesystem accesses can be compared. Cpu utilization for processes and within the Operating system can be isolated. The percentage of cpu time spent servicing floating point emulation, performing interrupts, swapping, in process control and in many other kernel subsystems is displayed. Indeed, these subsystems can be altered by the end user to profile inside Unix as required. This allows determining faulty hardware which consumes cpu cycles (such as a faulty serial card). Memory usage for each process is displayed, and the working set of memory resident in memory and being heavily accessed is also available. This allows exact computation of how much memory is used by an application, and how many more users can be added to the system. MONITOR can operate in interactive mode or in logging mode where all data is stored in a log file. This log file can be replayed later to view the performance data. The replay speed can be controlled to give a fast forward effect. MONITOR uses a device driver to gather the statistics necessary. MONITOR costs $350 US and comes complete with a 200 page manual. This manual comprehensively deals with all unix tuning and performance issues and is also a collection of much of the unix tuning folklore. MONITOR and is available for SCO Unix or Xenix and soon for Interactive 386/IX and AT&T Unix. Contact Anvil Designs Inc. 983 University Ave Building B, Suite 104 Los Gatos, CA 95030 US Tel (408) 395-5775 Fax (408) 395-6396 or Anvil Designs Pty. Ltd. 56 Sylvan Rd, Toowong. Australia 4066 Tel (617) 870-4999 Fax (617) 371-8881 e-mail ...!uunet!munnari!anvil.oz!mob Michael O'Brien Director Development Anvil Designs Pty. Ltd.