At 6:15 PM -0400 6/2/05, jludwig wrote: >On Thursday 02 June 2005 12:19 pm, Tony Nelson wrote: > >> In a terminal type: >> >> top -bd 30 > topout.txt >> >> which will cause top to run in batch mode and delay 30 seconds each time. >> Nothing will show in the terminal. Press ^C when you want it to stop. You >> could detach (&) the command but then it would be harder to stop, and new >> terminal windows are easy to make. The file will have lots of copies of a >> full top list, giving you some history to work from. >> ____________________________________________________________________ >> TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> >Actually you could do a ps -A and then kill "pid", or pkill. >Check the man pages for these commands. Uhh, what for? To kill all processes? Some particular process? Is this easier than typing ^C when one is done with top logging? Or are you talking about killing the process that is using up all the memory? ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
