From: Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan@xxxxxxxxx> > Is there a way to nail down the issue of high load on a server basically > trying to understand the reason behind high load at a specific time period. > I use top command but it does not have history. Maybe adapt something like this to your needs: while :; do LOAD=`cat /proc/loadavg | cut -f1 -d'.'`; if [ $LOAD -gt 3 ]; then ps auxfw > /tmp/ps.`date +"%s"`; sleep 60; fi; sleep 10; done JD _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos