Re: [flalug] has anyone noted odd swap file activity on a fairly regular schedule

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Feb 25 2004 - 16:31:18 EST

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Larry Brown wrote:

> I have one of my servers monitored for excessive cpu and memory usage.
> When they exceed limits it generates me an e-mail. Periodically I get
> paged for excessive memory utilization around 3pm and I hop onto the
> server and start looking around for a process that is active with a high
> amount of memory usage.

When it notes high memory use, have it do something like

top -n 1 -b > filename

(I wanted to have it sort by RAM use, but a little magic with sed and sort
should do that.)

> PS. I will try to attend the next meeting. How late do you usually go?

A couple hours at most.

> What is the attendance usually like?

5 +/- 2. 

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