Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 13:08:19 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finding out what ran when... Message-ID: <2331.209.167.16.15.1091639299.squirrel@209.167.16.15> In-Reply-To: <20040804115123.2865e826.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <2169.209.167.16.15.1091629376.squirrel@209.167.16.15> <20040804115123.2865e826.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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> "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> wrote: > >> I have rrdtool plotting graphs for me for system performance, >> memory, >> cpu etc, and about 4:30 AM, my cpu utilization goes through the >> roof. >> >> I know this is amanda (backup) doing this as it runs at this time, >> but >> I am curious to know if there are any utilities that can *watch* the >> system at night and report what did what and when. >> >> Perhaps something that can report if something uses xx% of cpu, or >> xxMB of memory? > > Sounds like you want process accounting. > > Check out the man pages for acct(2), accton(8), sa(8) and lastcomm(1) Excellent, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks very much Bill. Cheers! Steve > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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