[sf-lug] logging top

[Ken Shaffer]

The man page documents -d5.0 as the switch for a 5 sec delay between pages
on my Ubuntu system. Redirect stdout to a file, and you have it (but in
looking at the file, don't use cat, you will only see the last page in a
standard gnome terminal).
Ken
:

> On 07/08/2010 03:13 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to log output from top to a log file at a preset time
>> interval (say, every 5 seconds)? The system in question is running
>> Fedora 9.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sameer
>>
>
> Run "top -b -n 1 >> SomeLogFile.log" in a cron job?
>
> BTW, that's going to be a *very* big log file if you do that every 5
> seconds.
>
> DR
>
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