Darxus on Thu, 30 Aug 2001 01:30:54 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] what the hell is my computer doing?


On 08/29, William Shank wrote:
> problem is/was - i couldn't do anything at this point cause the system
> interface was unusably slow. next time i might try  a serial connection from
> my agenda, but i don't even know if that's possible when the machine is
> going bonkers.

I think he's suggesting that you write a cron job that writes the output
from ps and/or top to a file.  Like...

 ps auxww > ps.`/bin/date +%Y%m%d%H%M`

A good idea, I think.

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