[Gllug] load monitors

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:20:49PM +0000, Brent Geach wrote:
> Hi
> Does anyone knwo of any decent tools to monitor what processes are forcing the
> load of a machine through the roof (20 - 50!)
> top is not showing anything significant apart from the normal processes on the
> system

ps ax | grep ' D ' 

is a good one.

If your processes are remaining in the D state forever then you've
probably got faulty hardware or you're using an experimental kernel
feature. Either way it's trouble.

Rich.

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