Somebody in the thread at some point said: > What's the quickest/easiest way to log system load average to a text > file? I was using SAR, but getting load averages is a pain. I was > hoping there'd be a quick way to do it, but googling has come up with > bupkiss. while [ 1 ] ; do date | tr '\n' ' ' >> /tmp/loadlog ; \ cat /proc/loadavg >> /tmp/loadlog ; sleep 30s ; done -Andy