> "Steve Bertrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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)
Excellent, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks very much Bill. Cheers! Steve > > -- > Bill Moran > Potential Technologies > http://www.potentialtech.com > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"