Re: [cobalt-users] [RaQ4] CPU Usage ?

["William J.A. Brillinger" <billy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:16 PM 23/11/02 +0000, you wrote:
> >Anyway of checking this afterwards ??
> >I don't wanne stare at the active monitor all day long
>
> I've been wanting to do a similar thing lately (there seems an occasional 
> lag in opening files on a windows machine via samba, and i wondered if the 
> server was busy at the time.. another time for that one), so I created my 
> first little bash script and added it to Cron. It seems to work really 
> well :-)))))))) <enormous grin for my personal achievement in linux!>
>
> First, [well, after spending several hours trawling the internet] I 
> created a file called uptime_log (I found that entering "touch uptime_log" 
> did the trick).
>
> Then created two text files using pico

> <SNIP>

> This all works to send the results from the command "uptime" to the 
> uptime_log file. the script is called by Cron every 10 minutes in my 
> case.  I quickly lost track of which day was which, so the 
> uptimelogscript_date script is run once a day, first thing in the morning. 
> The uptime result goes on a new line every time by itself, which is why I 
> couldn't just use the date>>/home... command in front of every line created.
>
> To read the log file I use "cat uptime_log | more"
>
> I hope this helps,
> Steve

Our solution was to create a script in cron.daily:
(/etc/cron.hourly/mem-report.pl)

#!/usr/bin/perl
#$topoutput = `/usr/bin/top -b -n1`;
$topoutput = `cat /proc/meminfo`;
open (MAIL,"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t");
print MAIL "From: admin\@domain.com\n";
print MAIL "To: admin\@domain.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Hourly MEM Report\n\n";
print MAIL "$topoutput\n\n";
close (MAIL);



This gives us an hourly picture of what's happening by email.

- Bill



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