From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 28 20:04:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E670F16A4BF for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:04:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-da-1.dns-solutions.net (mail-da-1.dns-solutions.net [69.12.115.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B79043FAF for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:04:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ) Received: (qmail 69370 invoked from network); 29 Aug 2003 03:04:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO christabel.starbreaker.net) (matthew@starbreaker.net@209.113.232.92) by mail-da-1.dns-solutions.net - 209.113.232.92 with SMTP; 29 Aug 2003 03:04:24 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:07:04 -0400 From: Matthew Graybosch To: ZaiD Dashti Message-ID: <20030829030703.GA82833@christabel.starbreaker.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: monitoring X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 03:04:28 -0000 On 04:38 Fri 29 Aug , ZaiD Dashti wrote: > Dear experts > > how i can monitor my machine ? > which programs should i use ? I use top to keep track of active processes and to figure out which process decided to be naughty and hog the CPU. You can run it at the console or in a xterm. gkrellm2 (/usr/ports/sysutils/gkrellm2) is a nice system monitor that lets you track CPU, processes, disk usage, network usage, and lots of other stuff while running X. There's also the ps utility, which you can use for a list of processes. I'm sure there's more, but those are what I use. -- Matthew Graybosch http://www.starbreaker.net "The best way to lose an argument is to throw the first punch."