Re: [ILUG] Continuous process monitoring

From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Mon 17 Sep 2001 - 11:17:35 IST


On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:01:02AM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> I manage a box which provides web and mail services for a number of
> companies. The load average lately has on occasion gone sky high and I need
> to get a handle on what's going on. Of course I can use top, ps or vmstat at
> any given moment to see what's happening but I'd like to get a look at
> trends or the ongoing situation, particularly WRT memory and CPU usage by
> apache and Communigate Pro (a commercial SMTP server). I tried this

wouldn't system accounting work much better? you could use perl to
hilite/format the report.

on redhat, it's part of the psacct rpm. do a man on ac and accton.

kevin

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