Re: hardware information

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:58 AM, std pik <stdpik(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hello all..
>> I'm using PostgreSQL 8.3..
>> How can I get information about the hardware utilization:
>> - CPU usage.
>> - Disk space.
>> - Memory allocation.
>> thank you.
>
> Dude, there was a whole thread. Are you receiving our emails? If so
> is there some part of the thread that you had some questions? If not,
> I'm not sure how you'll answer this.

I wonder if we should set up a pgfoundry package that queries the
OS for the relevant information we find particularly relevant;
including more subtle things like whether or not fsync's lying
and why, and if the OOM killer's enabled.

Then we could tell people who ask this to install the module
and tell them to include the output of pg_system_info();

I might be volunteering to try this for a couple platforms,
but don't really know what's involved in setting up a pgfoundry
project.