> 
> (Sent again, yes I forgot an email alias, Spam is swamping us 
> and we had to 
> take measures to cut off some emails recently...Sorry about 
> the autoreply)
> 
> Hi,
> Our RAQ 550 is causing a LOT of trouble, it seems to be constantly 
> overloaded. The "top" command in SSH does not show much, 
> however many times 
> a day the FTP access times out for users, people cannot get 
> their mail 
> because the connection closes or times out, Web access crawls 
> to a halt, 
> etc. We also receive alerts such as "CPU moderatly used"... I kind of 
> suspect a few users who have installed open-source forums and 
> BBS, or use 
> MySQL way too much.
> Is there a tool or method I could use to find if someone, and 
> whom, is 
> taking up all the resources and preventing normal access for others ?
> 
> thanks for your time. 
> 
> 


simplemon [1] allows you to look at the most important log files at the same
time, to see what your server is doing.

At the same time, lookbusy [2] allows you to check the number of conenctions
to web, sql etc.

Running both at the same time should give you a clue to what your system is
doing.

Bob.


[1] http://www.depopo.net/projects/simplemon/index.htm
[2] http://www.depopo.net/page.php?id=184

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