Hello Martin,

Monday, 20 May 2002, you wrote:

>> I have no idea what's causing the load to go that high. It never does
>> it when I'm there! Any ideas how I can find out what's causing it?
>> (without sitting for days watching top :-).
>> 
>> I guess I need some kind of daemon/cron script that will just sit
>> there and tell me what's going on....

MM> Well if you want a little-effort/big-log solution :-) you could always
MM> have a cron line something like:

MM>   */5 * * * * top -n 1 -b |head -15 >> /home/mcr/top.dump 2>> 
/home/mcr/top.dump.err

MM> but adjust the */5 if you want it to log at some interval other than
MM> every 5 minutes and adjust the head -15 if you want some other number of
MM> lines logged.

*thinks*
cron script running every minute that mails me output of top if load avg > 10

now where's the scripting book...

 Mark

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