Resource Monitor Developer’s Guide
SLAMD provides a system for performing thorough benchmarks of network applications. Not only does it provide a means of measuring the performance of the application being tested, but it also offers capabilities to measure aspects of the system in which it is running, including CPU utilization, disk I/O, and network throughput. These system metrics can be collected using resource monitor clients, and just as SLAMD provides the ability to develop custom jobs to define new kinds of workloads, it also provides a means of developing custom resource monitors to capture a variety of system metrics.
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