On Tuesday 31 October 2006 23:22, Don Gould wrote: > I'm reading the man but not sure if I can cron a top >> logfile. No you can't. Top is specifically oriented to a display on the terminal.
> My cc server keeps going mad leaving me no choice than a reboot. > (ext2 fs, crap!). I wouldn't put it quite so emphatically, but basically I do agree. Have you booted the machine off a Live CD or a boot floppy and done a fsck? > I want to set some monitoring in place to see what was causing the load > before the crash. > What's the best way to do this? I'd use uptime to monitor the load and to trigger a sequence of ps >> logfile calls as frequently as needed when the load exceeds the trigger point. -- CS
