I have been running the nmon ( n igel's mon itor) for AIX project for 15 years now but I am still learning.   I initially wrote it to help me run AIX 3.2 then AIX 4 benchmarks on RS/6000 machines as running the older "down the screen" and "line by line" tools like vmstat and iostat was driving me mad (literally making my eye hurt) and so using screen curses enabled the number to stop moving on the screen.  nmon's second most important feature was to make graphing the results simpler as a graph includes the time dimension, it... [More]

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