On Wed, Nov 01, at 12:00:00AM, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > 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.
top can output to file or programme using the -b option. example: top -n 1 -b | $PAGER useful as an "alias" because top normally displays only about half its output to terminal but in the $PAGER you get the complete output. In Dons case top can run as a cron job every 15 secs using -n 1 or run in the background without cron with -n being a very large number. example: top -n 10000 -b >> logfile.txt Top has had new features added in the last four years and is better than it used to be. It can now toggle and configure colour with the "z" and "Z" hotkeys. > > My cc server keeps going mad leaving me no choice than a reboot. 2.6.X kernels have many new features particularly the convenience of udev on a desktop machine but for servers 2.4.X is still considered more stable. Take a look at memory management and processes swapping excessively. --- keith.
