At 8:31 AM +0300 6/2/05, Dotan Cohen wrote: >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. 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/>
