Check out sar (or lvmsa* if you're using lvm). Long-running processes are much easier to spot than short-lived processes, since short-lived processes may not even exist during any of your samples, but may still eat most of the system resources. For real process monitoring you probably need a commercial tool like Prognosis. :-( > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Culkin > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:01 PM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Processor Usage and Long Running Processor Checks > > Can anyone suggest or shares some scripts that I can run via cron > (hourly) that will check the processor usage (sysstat) and > check for long running processes? > > -- John C. > > -- > John J. Culkin Systems Administrator > John.Culkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx The University of Scranton > Phone: (570) 941-7665 > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list