On 6/1/05, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Probably no logs. Are you saying that the machine is instantly > unusable? That is really odd. Maybe you should leave top running all > the time? > > Thomas > No, I do have a minute or two before it goes unusable. As Robin suggested, I wil go in and perform top as soon as I see any sign of slow down. In any case, I will start to familiarize myslef with top. I have absolutly no experience in shell scripting, but if I wanted to write a script that would run top once every x seconds and write the output to a log, which commands would I need? I'l go digging myself and try to write it, but a hint as to what's available would be helpful. I do have a little experience in php, so there is some hope. Thanks everybody. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/pages/artist_albums.php/64/Beatles