[sf-lug] logging top

[Sameer Verma]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Ken Shaffer <kenshaffer80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Thanks for the tips. I found nmon instead, which does exactly what I
want. CPU, Memory, Disk, etc. out to csv or to rrdtool for graphing.
http://nmon.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php

cheers,
Sameer
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