Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 00:34:51 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: logging system load Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070803003111.18907C-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20070802120018.9322D16A4DC@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:52:20 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org> wrote: > 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. paqi% /bin/echo `/bin/date` `/sbin/sysctl -n vm.loadavg` Fri Aug 3 00:33:13 EST 2007 { 0.04 0.11 0.09 } Cheers, Ian
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