On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:03:54 +0100
"Eoin Verling" <everling at comnitel.com> wrote:
| I know this is a very vague question, but, a machine went up to a load
| of 33ish on me in the last 2 days. Although, getting a load of 33 is
| very impressive, I don't know why it got to such a load. So, all
| services started dying (NIS, httpd, etc ..) "top" reports nothing
| using the CPU. I know CPU isn't the only thing to load a machine, so
| my question is, what other tools are there to see what is loading the
| machine?
The usual suspect here would be that something decided to eat all your
memory. In top hit 'M' to sort by usage.
Paul
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