It should be noted "top" accepts a parm to adjust the report frequency - all the way down to fractions of a second. *All* sampling based monitors have their weaknesses - especially those that run in userspace. However, for those of us that developed our performance tuning/debugging skills in a traditional one-make proprietary environment the tools/metrics available in Linux are generally seen to be somewhat lacking.
I am in the process of preparing a presentation on such for submission for the next LCA - whether it fits the "theme" the organisers decide upon, let alone gets accepted at all remains to be seen. Shane ... On Thu, May 3rd, 2012 at 2:48 PM, "Srivastava, Sagar"wrote: ... > Standard > Linux commands like top could not show the process since it ran for 10 > seconds per minute only. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
