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Which performance counters you might to define as "The most important counters in checking unix performance"
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The most important ones depend on the role of the machine, but for a quick glance I usually check CPU % busy, CPU % waiting on I/O, and used versus cached memory.
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What do you think?

blks_read/sec
blks_written/sec
read_io_ops/sec
write_io_ops/sec
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5minAvg
Cached
Mem
MemFree
MemShared
MemTotal
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SwapCached
SwapFree
SwapTotal
Idle
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User
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blks_read/sec
blks_written/sec
read_io_ops/sec
write_io_ops/sec
1minAvg
5minAvg
Cached
Mem
MemFree
MemShared
MemTotal
Swap
SwapCached
SwapFree
SwapTotal
Idle
System
User
Context Switches/sec
Interrupts/sec
Page Ins/sec
Page Outs/sec
Swap Ins/sec
Swap Outs/sec
Page Faults/sec
Nice detail, though i would pick only those which will help detecting any bottleneck ...
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