http://forums.scoutapp.com/forums/4/topics/10 en-us 60 <p>Also, if you&#8217;re worried about <span class="caps">CPU</span> cycles being stolen by Scout, you can always run scout using nice to give it a low priority:</p> <pre> /usr/bin/nice -n 10 /usr/bin/scout </pre> <p>We&#8217;ve found the performance impact to be very very low, nonetheless.</p> Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:00:23 -0000 forums.scoutapp.com:4:10:27 seebq http://forums.scoutapp.com/forums/4/topics/10 <p>Christian,</p> <p>We built Scout so that it&#8217;s impact on performance would be very small. Here&#8217;s the basics:</p> <ul> <li>In our tests, the Scout client used btw 5-15 MB of memory when running</li> <li>The Scout client only runs when it&#8217;s executing the plugins (ex: every 30 minutes on the free plan) so it doesn&#8217;t use resources when it&#8217;s not active. </li> <li>The impact on the server load wasn&#8217;t detectable</li> </ul> <p>The client is extremely light &#8211; most of the work is done by the plugins. You could build a plugin that is extremely intensive &#8211; one that requires a lot of libraries maybe &#8211; and it will certainly use more resources. So in the end, it&#8217;s up to you.</p> <p>Also note that you can use Scout to monitor itself &#8211; you can use the server load plugin and monitor the memory usage of the &#8220;ruby&#8221; process to get a feel.</p> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:59:53 -0000 forums.scoutapp.com:4:10:24 itsderek23 http://forums.scoutapp.com/forums/4/topics/10 <p>I have a basic question about scout that I didn&#8217;t find in the help section.</p> <p>Given a web app on a server that doesn&#8217;t use Ruby, what the performance impact of installing not just the Scout Client, but also the Ruby engine as well? Can you give us some numbers so we have a sense of it?</p> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:46:29 -0000 forums.scoutapp.com:4:10:23 christian http://forums.scoutapp.com/forums/4/topics/10