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ckliborn
Asked: 2012-02-24 07:08:20 +0800 CST

Is there a way to run top as a daemon to gather historical process data?

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I am aware that I can write a cron job that will run top in batch mode and write the output to a file but I am looking for something more elegant than that. Also I am aware of sysstat (sar) but I am looking for more detailed process data.

Does something like this exist?

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    Look into atop, which runs a daemon and keeps historical data for every process. You made need to do some tweaking to keep an archive, but that's my other tool of choice besides sar.

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