Thanks for the on & off list ideas about this. The beast runs a very cut down distro called freesco, and its only use at present is as a print server. I hang onto it because I pointed out some bugs in the odd little print server daemon they use, and they changed it at my request. Its pretty much my sole contribution to free/open software :-)
Anyway its ps is a shell hack that obtains stats from the proc tree and dosen't show cpu usage. Ho hum. Can anyone tell me whereabouts in /proc you find cpu usage? The program seems to get its other stats in /proc/xx/status where xx is a pid. I could hack the script if I knew what all the info was in there. On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:09:24 +1300 Vik Olliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 11:28, Nick Rout wrote: > > I have a small printserver box with a very cut down distro on board. It > > doesn't have top. I just noticed its load average is above 2 for at > > least the last 15 minutes (ie during morning tea when no one is printing). > > > > How do I tell whats causing this without "top". > > "pstree" is my favourite. > > Vik :v) > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
