On Tue, August 29, 2006 5:02 pm, Craig Dibble wrote:
> Voytek Eymont wrote:

>> PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>> 4368 apache    20   0  3356 3348  1120 R    62.7  0.3  75:48 perl
>>
>
> Expand your terminal to full screen and hit 'c' in top and it will show
> you the command line that proces is running.

thanks, Craig

I need to move the cursor to the 'suspect line', yes ?
how do I do that in putty ?
in full screen putty session I'm still on top's upper line and 'c' gives
me only: 'show command line'


> The fact that you seem to have a whole heap of perl commands being run
> by apache definitely points to something being amiss. An apache restart
> will probably fix it, but it's a good idea to see if you can find out why
> it's happening in the first place if you can, as in all likelihood it will
> recur.

yes, I would like to find that out
as it was, when trying to restart apache, I ended up in a loop where it
failed to start up again, and, under the circumstances, I ended up
restarting the system (as I couldn't recall how to clear the problem...)

-- 
Voytek

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