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weekpeaks - Server load summary

Simple long-term statistics of RAM/CPU/SWAP from SAR

After installing the package sysstat, enable it and leave it run for many days. Then use these scripts to postprocess all collected data. The output will be similar to this: 

# weekpeaks.sh
ave mem usage 19.2567
ave swap usage 53991.7
ave CPU usage 2.69001
max mem usage 9.09147
max swap usage 98556
max CPU usage 9.49
Memory is in Kb, all other values are percentages. Download the weekpeaks tarball and install it by doing: 
# tar -C /tmp -zxvf weekpeaks.tar.gz