Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:52:20 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org> To: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Momchil Ivanov <idiotbg@gmail.com> Subject: Re: logging system load Message-ID: <29ffef3611266e3465b2ec20c079dc69@szalbot.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <200708021344.34110.nvass@teledomenet.gr> References: <200708021344.34110.nvass@teledomenet.gr>
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Hello, On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:44:33 +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> wrote: > 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. Thanks but that wouldn't record the time, would it? With uptime it is nice to have the current time also recorded and I can compare logs to load by time. -- Zbigniew Szalbot
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