Monitoring Memory Usage on UNIX

[AgnessGP]

Hi All,

My server keeps 'falling to sleep' i.e. an event log file becomes old meaning no new events are being processed.

I have made a script that outputs the age of the file every X seconds to see if it has 'fallen to sleep' again.

What i want to do is monitor memory usage also, to see if that ties in with the times which the server stops responding.

I know 'top' shows current usage, but is there a way to write that to a file?

Thanks in advance anyone! I know this is different to normal computing questions but worth a try.

 

[colin79666]

Well you could just redirect top to a file with top >> yourfile.txt
I'd combine with with GREP if you have something specific you are looking for.

 

[AgnessGP]

Thanks Colin. Tried that and it worked. Now just got to pile through things and try and find the cause.