On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Dean, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unfortunately, I have not been able to get a snapshot from top when it is > running slow. The slowdowns typically only last a few seconds and do not > occur with any sort of regularity (that I've been able to determine, > anyway. > > nmon is a nice tool for collecting a bunch of info including CPU, Memory, VM, Network, Disk, and Top processes. You can view data live or dump the data to CSV for further analysis later. http://nmon.sourceforge.net/

