What's so heavy? Pegging CPU or memory

[stan]

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 07:31:38PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> How can I log things that peg the CPU or memory? Often I get
> several-second lockups (nothing works but the mouse pointer moves) and
> I'd like to know the state of the machine at that instant. I could
> direct top's output to a file, nice it, and then parse that manually,
> but if there is a better way then I'd love to know. Thanks.
> 

Are you certain it's a loadiing issue? Could be something like DNS
problems. That could give you the sort of thing you are mentionong. Use top
to look at system loading, and see if it is not still low, when you have
one of these occurunces.


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