logging system load

Nikos Vassiliadis nvass at teledomenet.gr
Thu Aug 2 10:45:27 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 25 July 2007 20:50, Momchil Ivanov wrote:
> На Wednesday 25 July 2007 19:38:41 Zbigniew Szalbot написа:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Is there a tool similar to top which would measure system load and
> > write it to a file that could later be analyzed? The time when my
> > system is most loaded happens between 3 and 5 a.m. so a trace of the
> > system load would be a wonderful thing to have. I need it to tailor
> > some of the jobs accordingly. Any advice?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>
> You can make a cronjob doing "uptime >> /path/to/logfile" every minute

Or perhaps "sysctl -n vm.loadavg" instead of uptime,
which is the same information, but requires less
scrubbing.

Nikos


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