Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 11:51:23 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finding out what ran when... Message-ID: <20040804115123.2865e826.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <2169.209.167.16.15.1091629376.squirrel@209.167.16.15> References: <2169.209.167.16.15.1091629376.squirrel@209.167.16.15>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
"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) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040804115123.2865e826.wmoran>