[leglug-users] CPU overloaded?

[Jocelyn]

maybe making a small script that redirect the logs each 5 minuts of the ps
aux command to some file and you will have everything logged
 pas aux > /~/process

or using the  " top " command show you process activity live

wish this will help

Reagrds

On 9/13/07, Chady Kassouf <chady.kassouf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 9/13/07, Mohammed Shublaq <moshub at riseup.net> wrote:
> >
> > thanks. but i need to view the history of the processes, since during
> > the
> > time when the CPU is overloaded, i cannot access the server, it's
> > completely "out of range". but 10 minutes later things go back
> >
> > your input is appreciated...thanks
>
>
>
> The main thing you are looking for now, is to identify the guilty process.
>
> ps aux will show you something like this:
>
> chady    24127  0.2  0.4   2264 1296 ?        S    14:23   0:02 blah
> ..
>
> The last number before the binary name is the amount of CPU time this
> process was using
> So you are looking for processes that have a large number there
>
> Until you identify the guilty process, we can't know what is going wrong.
>
>
> MO
> > --
> >
> >
> > On Thu, September 13, 2007 6:11 pm, Nadim Kobeissi wrote:
> > > I would recommend using a very effective tool called 'htop'.
> > >
> > > On 9/13/07, Chady Kassouf <chady.kassouf at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 9/13/07, Mohammed Shublaq <moshub at riseup.net> wrote:
> > >> > hello all
> > >> > i'm facing this issue with my office server [Debian etch]. lately,
> > the
> > >> > server freezes and it stops all its services [DNS, DHCP, mail,
> > ...],
> > >> when
> > >> > i review the
> > >> > CPU load averages, it indicates the following:
> > >> > 5.49 (1 min) 24.78 (5 mins) 22.53 (15 mins)
> > >> >
> > >> > how can i know what's going on, and what process is over-loading
> > the
> > >> CPU?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> You can start by typing: ps aux
> > >> and check the CPU usage for processes
> > >>
> > >> > thanks
> > >> > MO
> > >> >
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