On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Steve Holdoway wrote:
John Carter wrote:
Open up a command line, and say "top"
[snip a jolly good read]
Could I just point out that top redraws the screen every 3 seconds, and the
first set of data that you see is historical - and may be an average of many
days. From the first redraw on is current information.
Good point. I tend to watch it for a couple of refreshes just to see if
anything else is popping up the list.
This is of almost no real relevance, unless you're writing a script to parse
this information, and expect the first page to have current info.
If you want to parse the output then the "vmstat" command is a good
choice.
However, if you are writing something like that you are possibly
reinventing a wheel...
See the "procmeter3" and "sar" packages for long term monitoring tools.
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