Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:24:01 +0100 From: Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: load average and some built-in monitoring mechanism Message-ID: <94136a2c0903021024q54225574hc36661eaa29a057@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi there, My machine has recently been taken down by (most likely) runaway java process. The box had to be rebooted as there was no remote access to it but I am not able to find anything useful in logs to confirm whether it was java. Is there a tool that would enable me to automatically turn on verbose logging of top processes to some file once the load average is greater than the specified value? This way, once the storm is over, I would be able to see which process(es) went nuts. I guess a tool like that may simply already exist in which case I'd appreciate links/more information. How are you dealing with such issues when/if they happen to you? Many thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot www.slowo.pl www.fairtrade.net.pl
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